Pre-Trip Report: Katherine & Renie’s Birthday Mom and Daughter Trip (September/October 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: Please end.

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VIRGINIA: Thank you very much.

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VIRGINIA: On today's episode, I'm welcoming back Katherine, one of the two hosts of the Parents On Disney Podcast, who I interviewed last year when she and her best friend slash podcast co-host took a girls trip together.

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VIRGINIA: This time, Katherine is joined by her mother, Renie.

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VIRGINIA: As a note before we get started, for this pre-trip interview, there's a little crackling on Renie's track, which I cleaned up as best I can.

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VIRGINIA: You'll probably notice it here and there when she speaks.

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VIRGINIA: But not to worry, the issue did not follow her into the post-trip episode, which should be the next one in your queue.

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VIRGINIA: With that housekeeping out of the way, here are Katherine and Renie.

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VIRGINIA: Listeners, I am so happy to welcome back to the podcast, Katherine from the Parents On Disney Podcast.

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VIRGINIA: Today she has a very special guest.

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VIRGINIA: Katherine, who do you have with you today?

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KATHERINE: My mom is here with us today.

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KATHERINE: She has been on our podcast a couple of times, but this is her first time meeting Virginia and coming on to Where I Long To Be.

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KATHERINE: So excited to chat and talk about our trip coming up.

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RENIE: And I'm very excited to be here.

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RENIE: Thank you.

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VIRGINIA: Thank you so much for joining us, Renie.

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VIRGINIA: And can you just give me maybe a little bit of information about how many times you think you've been to the Disney parks, what you love about it?

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VIRGINIA: Are you a Disney lifer?

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RENIE: Yes, I am a Disney lifer, I would say.

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RENIE: I spent my honeymoon there 40 years ago.

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RENIE: I can't remember how many trips we've taken with the kids.

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VIRGINIA: Too many to count.

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RENIE: Well, based on the Christmas tree ornaments, there have been a lot of trips.

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KATHERINE: I tried to count it up a couple days ago, so I think you've been 12 times with us and then two times before us.

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RENIE: Yes, that sounds right.

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VIRGINIA: Okay, that's definitely a Disney lifer.

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VIRGINIA: You have the credentials.

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VIRGINIA: Am I correct in remembering that you were from Long Island?

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RENIE: Yes.

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KATHERINE: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Nice.

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VIRGINIA: I am currently sitting in Queens.

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KATHERINE: Oh, okay.

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RENIE: We're all the way out from the other end.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: You currently are still in Long Island.

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RENIE: No, no, no, but that's where we're from.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

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VIRGINIA: I was like, I'll come visit.

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VIRGINIA: We'll have a party.

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KATHERINE: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Well, I'm so excited to talk to you all about this trip.

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VIRGINIA: First question is, who is going to be joining you?

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VIRGINIA: Is it just a mother daughter trip or will you have others?

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KATHERINE: It's just us.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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KATHERINE: Unencumbered.

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VIRGINIA: What was the inspiration?

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VIRGINIA: Have you been talking about taking a mother daughter trip for a long time?

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VIRGINIA: Or how did it all come to be?

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RENIE: I don't think we've been talking about it at all, really.

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RENIE: And it just kind of came up.

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RENIE: Well, Katherine originally was planning a cruise and asked me and my husband if we wanted to go and our response was kind of, I don't think so.

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RENIE: So then out of the blue, she kind of came up with this idea.

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RENIE: How about you and I go?

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RENIE: It's her birthday.

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RENIE: The day we're leaving is actually her birthday.

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RENIE: So the two of us are going.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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KATHERINE: That is not how I remember this.

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KATHERINE: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Let's hear your version of the story.

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KATHERINE: My version is the last time I was on with you, Virginia, was I had gone in December with my best friend, Lucy, and it was just the two of us.

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KATHERINE: And we just went and it was a very relaxed, kind of just like do what we want kind of trip, no kids, no husbands.

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KATHERINE: And then when I got back from that trip, mom had said to me, you know, that seems kind of fun.

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KATHERINE: I'd kind of like to do that.

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KATHERINE: And then it went from there.

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KATHERINE: The cruise thing has now developed into, we're taking another trip with the family in January, but this is just us, girls only.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Either way.

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RENIE: Okay, I'll go with that.

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VIRGINIA: You still made it to the same destination.

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VIRGINIA: It's fine.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: So where will you be staying for this trip?

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KATHERINE: So we are doing a split stay.

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KATHERINE: We are starting at Pop Century and then we are going to Caribbean Beach.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: And have either of you stayed at both of those?

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VIRGINIA: I know you've stayed at Pop before.

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VIRGINIA: Have you stayed at Caribbean Beach?

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KATHERINE: So we stayed at Caribbean Beach.

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KATHERINE: I want to say it was in 2002.

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KATHERINE: So it's been a while.

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KATHERINE: Okay.

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KATHERINE: So I was 12, give or take.

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KATHERINE: So I don't remember much of it.

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KATHERINE: I don't know if you remember more.

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KATHERINE: I don't either.

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KATHERINE: So it'll be like the first time, I think, and it has undergone a big refurbishment since then.

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KATHERINE: And so it's basically new to us.

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VIRGINIA: Have you put in any specific room requests for either of your stays?

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KATHERINE: Yeah, I just did that yesterday.

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KATHERINE: So Pop Century, I requested.

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RENIE: Close to transportation?

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KATHERINE: Close to transportation.

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KATHERINE: And what was the other thing?

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KATHERINE: I texted you and I told you what I asked for.

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KATHERINE: And now I don't remember.

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RENIE: I don't either.

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VIRGINIA: We'll find out when you get there.

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KATHERINE: Ground floor maybe?

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RENIE: I think it might have been ground floor, yeah.

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KATHERINE: I could look through our text history and I could tell you what it was.

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RENIE: That's what I'm doing right now.

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KATHERINE: And okay, yeah, close to transportation and ground floor.

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KATHERINE: And then also, we are going to be there.

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KATHERINE: We're hoping by 2 o'clock or so, so our flight's in the morning.

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KATHERINE: So we're hoping to be there before typical check-in time.

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KATHERINE: So I did ask if the room, if they can get us a room before 3 o'clock, disregard the request, just we want a room as early as possible.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Did you opt for a preferred room category?

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KATHERINE: We did not.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: And for what about Caribbean Beach?

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KATHERINE: Same thing, close to transportation, ground floor.

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KATHERINE: If you could get us something as early as possible, we'll take whatever you have first.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Well, those are both great resorts.

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VIRGINIA: You're going to have the Skyliner at Caribbean Beach, which is always handy.

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KATHERINE: And at Pop Century.

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VIRGINIA: That's true.

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VIRGINIA: And at Pop Century.

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VIRGINIA: And are you going to be opting for any add-ons this trip, like Halloween party or anything like that?

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RENIE: Oh, we're excited.

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RENIE: We're so excited.

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KATHERINE: We talked about doing a Halloween party, but then we decided instead we are doing the Keys to the Kingdom Tour.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, my word.

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KATHERINE: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: I am so jealous.

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VIRGINIA: And Katherine may know this, but I am dying to do this tour, but I have vowed to my son Alex, who is 14 and a diehard Disney person like me, that I will not do it until he is old enough to do it with me.

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RENIE: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So I have a couple more years yet and then we're doing it.

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RENIE: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So very excited to hear all about that.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: Are you going to be opting for any Lightning Lane, Multipass, individual Lightning Lane type of things?

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RENIE: Well, back up just a second, Katherine, because the other thing that we're going to do besides Keys to the Kingdom, we're going to Cirque du Soleil.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, okay.

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VIRGINIA: Have either of you seen a Cirque du Soleil show?

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RENIE: Only on TV.

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RENIE: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: The only one I have seen is Drawn to Life.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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KATHERINE: I feel like we've seen similar, like SeaWorld years and years ago, you have a similar style of show.

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KATHERINE: I don't know that we've ever seen the Cirque du Soleil.

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RENIE: No.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: We did Drawn to Life, I don't know, maybe a year or two ago, we did it.

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VIRGINIA: It was great.

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VIRGINIA: It was fantastic.

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VIRGINIA: There's really, I can say honestly, there's not a bad seat in the house because it's like a horseshoe.

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VIRGINIA: So you don't really have to have any particular seat to really enjoy the show.

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VIRGINIA: Back to the question about multi-pass, any of that stuff you're going to be opting for?

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KATHERINE: So we did get it for Magic Kingdom.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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KATHERINE: Today is our seven weeks out, so I got it this morning.

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VIRGINIA: Seven days.

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VIRGINIA: Seven weeks.

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KATHERINE: Oh, seven days.

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KATHERINE: Did I say weeks?

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KATHERINE: No, days.

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KATHERINE: Yes.

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KATHERINE: Yeah, it's sneaking up on us.

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KATHERINE: So we did get that this morning.

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KATHERINE: So we're only doing Magic Kingdom, Epcot and Hollywood Studios.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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KATHERINE: We sat down and we looked at the new system and what the tiers were, and what would we be able to get, and what were we interested in doing.

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KATHERINE: Magic Kingdom, I think we knew we were always going to get, and then especially having this tour, that's going to take up a large portion of our day.

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KATHERINE: So we really are going to need to have the ability to skip some lines in order to get done everything we want to get done.

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KATHERINE: So we did get for Magic Kingdom.

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KATHERINE: Hollywood Studios, there isn't as much there.

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KATHERINE: Mom's not a thrill ride person and I'm not going to go on and stuff by myself, that's no fun.

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KATHERINE: So we didn't feel like we needed it for Hollywood Studios.

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KATHERINE: And then Epcot, we kind of went back and forth on and we decided we think we can probably get done the things that are going to have the longer lines later in the day, first thing in the morning.

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KATHERINE: And I've been checking also on my Disney experience to see what the wait times have been throughout the day for the parks.

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KATHERINE: And it doesn't seem like knock on wood and everything, it doesn't seem like the lines have been terrible.

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KATHERINE: So we decided that we probably didn't need it for Epcot.

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KATHERINE: But we did get Magic Kingdom and I got Tiana's, which we have not done, we're looking forward to.

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KATHERINE: And Winnie the Pooh and Pirates.

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VIRGINIA: OK, all right.

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KATHERINE: Because we have heard that the on the tour, you get to do Haunted Mansion and then normally you do Jungle Cruise, but Jungle Cruise is closed.

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KATHERINE: So I don't know if there will be a replacement.

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KATHERINE: We're kind of hoping maybe Pirates will be the replacement, because that's mom's favorite ride.

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KATHERINE: So if we could go and see some of the backstage stuff there, that would be incredible.

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KATHERINE: But I have no idea.

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KATHERINE: They haven't.

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KATHERINE: I haven't gotten anything from Disney saying anything about the tour, because I don't think that they really tell you in advance.

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VIRGINIA: I just I think they probably leave it open so that it's so you're not disappointed if something can't happen.

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KATHERINE: Right.

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KATHERINE: So I have a friend who did it a few months ago, and those were the two rides that they did were Jungle Cruise and Haunted Mansion.

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KATHERINE: So I think that's the typical.

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KATHERINE: So I have no idea.

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KATHERINE: I don't know what we're going to get.

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KATHERINE: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: I just heard about Jungle Cruise being down the other day when I was listening to, I think it was that Park Life podcast where they had no idea that it was going to be down either.

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VIRGINIA: They just showed up and they're like, wait, oh, okay, we can't do that.

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KATHERINE: I think it's closed until mid-October is what I had seen.

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KATHERINE: They're expecting it to open around the 18th.

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VIRGINIA: But we like Jungle Cruise, but it's one I could skip.

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VIRGINIA: We'll go on it in January.

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KATHERINE: We'll be fine.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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RENIE: We've done it many, many times.

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KATHERINE: It hasn't changed much.

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RENIE: It'll be fine.

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KATHERINE: We'll still get to see it after it's refreshed.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah.

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VIRGINIA: I have a question for you, Renie.

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VIRGINIA: If Pirates is your favorite, have you ever gotten the opportunity to go to Disneyland and see the differences between the two versions?

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RENIE: We did go to Disneyland in 2000, was it five?

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RENIE: Yes, because Katrina was hitting when we were coming home.

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RENIE: The day we were flying home, Katrina was sitting.

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RENIE: But I don't really remember all that much.

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RENIE: The memory is not what you used.

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VIRGINIA: I would love to write it again because the times that I have written it at Disneyland, I had not written it at Disney World enough times to be like, I have this whole thing memorized.

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VIRGINIA: At this point, I'm totally memorized on the one we have.

00:12:20.830 --> 00:12:24.990
VIRGINIA: I feel like I would definitely be able to spot all of the differences.

00:12:24.990 --> 00:12:27.230
VIRGINIA: I do know that it's a longer ride.

00:12:27.230 --> 00:12:28.230
VIRGINIA: I remember that part.

00:12:28.330 --> 00:12:30.770
VIRGINIA: I think there's two drops.

00:12:31.450 --> 00:12:31.830
RENIE: Yeah.

00:12:31.830 --> 00:12:38.430
RENIE: Well, if you watch it on Disney Plus, what's the show, Katherine, about the rides behind the attraction?

00:12:38.430 --> 00:12:39.510
KATHERINE: Oh, yeah.

00:12:39.510 --> 00:12:40.490
RENIE: Behind the attraction.

00:12:40.490 --> 00:12:40.650
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:12:40.670 --> 00:12:44.110
RENIE: And there's definitely two drops because I was watching and I said, wait a minute.

00:12:44.110 --> 00:12:45.010
RENIE: I don't remember.

00:12:45.010 --> 00:12:46.690
RENIE: Oh, they were talking about Disneyland.

00:12:46.690 --> 00:12:47.310
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:12:47.310 --> 00:12:47.970
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:12:47.970 --> 00:12:49.610
VIRGINIA: No, that's such a good show too.

00:12:49.610 --> 00:12:53.790
VIRGINIA: I would encourage anybody who has access to Disney Plus, watch Behind the Attraction.

00:12:53.790 --> 00:12:59.730
VIRGINIA: It is so fascinating if you are really into the history of Disney and how things came to be.

00:12:59.730 --> 00:13:02.970
VIRGINIA: So I'm glad you mentioned that because I did see that, but it's been a while since I watched it.

00:13:03.270 --> 00:13:11.970
VIRGINIA: But the good news is I have a work conference that's coming up in June that will be in Anaheim right across the street at the Anaheim Convention Center.

00:13:11.970 --> 00:13:18.430
VIRGINIA: So I don't know what my colleagues are going to be doing in the evenings after our session is over, but I can tell you this girl is going to be in Disneyland.

00:13:18.430 --> 00:13:19.710
VIRGINIA: I don't care by myself.

00:13:19.710 --> 00:13:21.150
VIRGINIA: You know I love a solo trip.

00:13:21.150 --> 00:13:21.950
VIRGINIA: Why not?

00:13:22.790 --> 00:13:23.990
RENIE: Why not?

00:13:23.990 --> 00:13:24.550
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:13:24.550 --> 00:13:26.770
VIRGINIA: Well, let's get into all of the details.

00:13:26.770 --> 00:13:31.430
VIRGINIA: So you said you had a morning flight, which is going to be Saturday, September the 28th.

00:13:31.530 --> 00:13:33.710
VIRGINIA: It's a week from today.

00:13:33.710 --> 00:13:39.690
VIRGINIA: So what is your plan for getting from MCO over to your resort?

00:13:42.070 --> 00:13:50.030
KATHERINE: Well, so originally we were going to do what we have done previously, which is just Uber.

00:13:50.030 --> 00:13:56.510
KATHERINE: But then a few days ago, somebody sent me an article about, oh, there's this bus.

00:13:56.510 --> 00:13:58.110
KATHERINE: So we're going to try the bus.

00:13:58.110 --> 00:13:58.590
VIRGINIA: Wait a second.

00:13:58.590 --> 00:14:01.750
VIRGINIA: Is the somebody, Renie, is the somebody in the room with us?

00:14:01.750 --> 00:14:03.070
KATHERINE: Yes, it is.

00:14:04.470 --> 00:14:14.050
RENIE: I got a news feed about, and it was a regular Orlando TV station news clip, that they have a city bus.

00:14:14.050 --> 00:14:15.170
VIRGINIA: Oh, a city bus.

00:14:15.170 --> 00:14:19.710
RENIE: A city bus, a LYNX bus that runs from Orlando Airport.

00:14:19.710 --> 00:14:21.810
RENIE: It makes five stops.

00:14:21.810 --> 00:14:25.410
RENIE: And the last stop it makes is Disney Springs.

00:14:25.410 --> 00:14:25.870
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:14:25.870 --> 00:14:27.310
VIRGINIA: I do know about this bus.

00:14:27.310 --> 00:14:28.210
RENIE: It costs $2.

00:14:31.330 --> 00:14:33.590
RENIE: They said it takes about an hour to get there.

00:14:33.590 --> 00:14:35.810
RENIE: And then we figured, well, we'll try that.

00:14:35.810 --> 00:14:40.270
RENIE: And then we'll uber over from Disney Springs and see how it goes.

00:14:40.270 --> 00:14:40.650
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:14:40.650 --> 00:14:41.630
RENIE: Test it out.

00:14:41.630 --> 00:14:42.510
RENIE: Test it out.

00:14:42.510 --> 00:14:46.170
VIRGINIA: So I will be very interested to hear how this goes because I have heard of this bus.

00:14:46.170 --> 00:14:49.750
VIRGINIA: And I think that it sounds like a great option.

00:14:49.750 --> 00:14:56.450
VIRGINIA: I think that some people do it and they take the bus, the Disney bus from Disney Springs to their resort because it's free.

00:14:57.210 --> 00:14:59.410
VIRGINIA: But then you've got your bags with you.

00:14:59.410 --> 00:15:07.550
VIRGINIA: So that's an option to should you get to Disney Springs and you're like, oh, look, a Pop Century bus.

00:15:07.550 --> 00:15:07.850
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:15:07.850 --> 00:15:09.790
KATHERINE: We talked about that.

00:15:09.790 --> 00:15:12.290
KATHERINE: We're not going to have a lot of luggage with us.

00:15:12.290 --> 00:15:15.730
KATHERINE: We're just each going to have a carry on in our personal items.

00:15:16.830 --> 00:15:20.310
KATHERINE: So I think it would probably be fine.

00:15:21.710 --> 00:15:25.470
KATHERINE: But we also, I don't know, we don't want to cause any trouble.

00:15:26.510 --> 00:15:28.850
KATHERINE: Either and get kicked off the Disney bus.

00:15:28.850 --> 00:15:31.930
KATHERINE: So I don't feel it out when we get there, I guess.

00:15:31.930 --> 00:15:34.310
VIRGINIA: I don't think anybody's going to kick you off the bus, first of all.

00:15:34.310 --> 00:15:41.310
VIRGINIA: But second of all, based on the time that you're arriving, I can't imagine there's going to be a ton of people on the bus.

00:15:41.310 --> 00:15:42.870
RENIE: That's what we figure.

00:15:42.870 --> 00:15:43.490
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:15:43.490 --> 00:15:45.290
KATHERINE: So all right.

00:15:45.290 --> 00:15:49.090
KATHERINE: I guess we'll see what time it is and how desperate we are to get to the hotel.

00:15:49.770 --> 00:15:49.870
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:15:49.870 --> 00:15:51.930
KATHERINE: After being on the bus per hour.

00:15:51.930 --> 00:15:54.230
VIRGINIA: What time does your flight actually land then?

00:15:54.230 --> 00:15:56.690
KATHERINE: Flight is supposed to land, I think, at 1130.

00:15:57.790 --> 00:15:58.750
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:15:58.750 --> 00:16:05.130
VIRGINIA: So by saying that you thought you'd be at the resort at around 2 PM, you're allowing plenty of time in terms of your expectations.

00:16:05.130 --> 00:16:05.830
VIRGINIA: So okay.

00:16:05.890 --> 00:16:06.810
KATHERINE: Yes.

00:16:06.810 --> 00:16:07.670
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:16:07.670 --> 00:16:12.370
VIRGINIA: What are your plans for that evening of your arrival day?

00:16:13.450 --> 00:16:14.110
RENIE: Cirque du Soleil.

00:16:16.370 --> 00:16:19.410
KATHERINE: That's the only set plan that we have.

00:16:19.410 --> 00:16:25.190
KATHERINE: We have a lot of other options floating around for the rest of the night.

00:16:26.330 --> 00:16:37.930
KATHERINE: This is a lot of checkpoints throughout the trip, of things that we definitely are doing at certain times, and then everything else is going to be like, where do you want to go?

00:16:37.930 --> 00:16:38.450
KATHERINE: What do you want to do?

00:16:39.510 --> 00:16:40.770
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I like that, though.

00:16:40.770 --> 00:16:50.150
VIRGINIA: As long as you have thought about it in advance and you think, oh, here are the things we might do, then you have that flexibility to just say, how do we feel in the moment?

00:16:50.810 --> 00:16:52.590
VIRGINIA: What time is the Cirque show?

00:16:52.590 --> 00:16:53.750
KATHERINE: 5.30.

00:16:53.750 --> 00:16:54.430
VIRGINIA: 5.30.

00:16:54.430 --> 00:16:55.230
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:16:55.230 --> 00:17:02.910
VIRGINIA: You should be out of the Cirque show at a time when, in theory, if you wanted to, I think you could watch the Drone show if you were still wanting to hang around at Drift and Spring.

00:17:02.910 --> 00:17:04.190
KATHERINE: The Drone show is over.

00:17:04.450 --> 00:17:05.350
KATHERINE: No way.

00:17:05.350 --> 00:17:05.710
VIRGINIA: It is?

00:17:05.990 --> 00:17:06.570
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:17:06.570 --> 00:17:07.070
VIRGINIA: Oh my God.

00:17:07.070 --> 00:17:07.730
VIRGINIA: Breaking news.

00:17:07.730 --> 00:17:08.790
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:17:08.790 --> 00:17:09.630
KATHERINE: I'm sorry.

00:17:09.630 --> 00:17:10.910
KATHERINE: I'm sorry to be the one to tell you.

00:17:10.910 --> 00:17:12.210
VIRGINIA: Why?

00:17:12.210 --> 00:17:13.230
VIRGINIA: Why?

00:17:13.230 --> 00:17:17.050
KATHERINE: It was just a limited time engagement for the summer.

00:17:17.050 --> 00:17:18.510
VIRGINIA: Oh, you know what?

00:17:18.510 --> 00:17:22.090
VIRGINIA: Today is literally the last day of the summer.

00:17:22.090 --> 00:17:24.430
VIRGINIA: Because today is, do you remember?

00:17:26.130 --> 00:17:27.430
VIRGINIA: 21st of September.

00:17:27.430 --> 00:17:28.790
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:17:28.790 --> 00:17:29.390
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:17:29.390 --> 00:17:29.970
VIRGINIA: Dang it.

00:17:29.970 --> 00:17:32.950
VIRGINIA: I totally got it in my head that it was a thing and it was going to go on.

00:17:33.490 --> 00:17:41.750
VIRGINIA: So my hope is that maybe they will do something like that and take the technology and use it at a place like Epcot.

00:17:41.750 --> 00:17:49.170
KATHERINE: I think that is probably, they did it on a small scale at Disney Springs for a short period to see.

00:17:49.170 --> 00:17:49.490
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:17:49.490 --> 00:17:50.670
RENIE: Animal Kingdom, maybe.

00:17:50.670 --> 00:17:52.130
RENIE: That would be something.

00:17:52.130 --> 00:17:52.570
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:17:52.570 --> 00:17:54.470
VIRGINIA: Oh, that would be great for Animal Kingdom.

00:17:54.470 --> 00:17:57.210
VIRGINIA: Well, would it bother the animals?

00:17:57.210 --> 00:17:57.790
VIRGINIA: I'm not sure.

00:17:57.790 --> 00:18:02.530
VIRGINIA: But that body of water where they have the stadium seating, where they used to do kite tails.

00:18:02.530 --> 00:18:03.090
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:18:03.090 --> 00:18:03.350
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:18:03.750 --> 00:18:04.690
KATHERINE: What was the show?

00:18:04.690 --> 00:18:07.070
KATHERINE: Rivers of Light.

00:18:07.070 --> 00:18:07.670
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:18:07.670 --> 00:18:09.810
VIRGINIA: I don't know if it would make a difference if it was in the air.

00:18:09.810 --> 00:18:11.190
VIRGINIA: There's monkeys nearby.

00:18:11.190 --> 00:18:13.990
VIRGINIA: It might bother their habitat.

00:18:15.590 --> 00:18:18.450
VIRGINIA: I was thinking Hollywood Studios originally.

00:18:18.450 --> 00:18:29.550
VIRGINIA: But then I was like, I don't think there's a place in Hollywood Studios they could really do it well and have people far enough away so that in case something went wrong with the drone, that no one would get hurt.

00:18:30.670 --> 00:18:34.170
VIRGINIA: Then I was like, well, how come it's got a big body of water and no animals?

00:18:34.870 --> 00:18:36.090
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:18:36.090 --> 00:18:37.130
VIRGINIA: Anyway, okay.

00:18:37.130 --> 00:18:40.750
VIRGINIA: Well, thank you for snapping me back to reality.

00:18:40.750 --> 00:18:41.650
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:18:41.650 --> 00:18:46.130
VIRGINIA: Sunday, September 29th, is that your first Park Day?

00:18:46.130 --> 00:18:46.770
KATHERINE: It is.

00:18:46.770 --> 00:18:46.950
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:18:46.950 --> 00:18:47.570
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:18:47.570 --> 00:18:49.210
VIRGINIA: Which one are you going to first?

00:18:49.210 --> 00:18:50.490
KATHERINE: Hollywood Studios.

00:18:50.490 --> 00:18:52.130
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:18:52.130 --> 00:18:55.090
VIRGINIA: Are you going to be trying to get there early?

00:18:55.090 --> 00:18:57.170
VIRGINIA: Are you going to be rope dropping?

00:18:57.970 --> 00:19:06.490
KATHERINE: We are planning to rope drop since we're not doing any sort of lightning lane, anything.

00:19:06.490 --> 00:19:12.330
KATHERINE: Our plan is to get there as early as possible so we can knock out the things that we want to do before they get long lines.

00:19:13.670 --> 00:19:19.010
KATHERINE: We do have a lunch reservation at Sci-Fi.

00:19:20.250 --> 00:19:21.150
VIRGINIA: Sci-Fi Diner?

00:19:21.390 --> 00:19:22.470
KATHERINE: Diner, yeah.

00:19:22.470 --> 00:19:24.030
KATHERINE: Diner and drive-in, yeah.

00:19:24.030 --> 00:19:25.570
KATHERINE: The Sci-Fi one.

00:19:25.570 --> 00:19:32.130
KATHERINE: Another thing for this trip, another goal of ours has been to try to eat at some different places.

00:19:32.130 --> 00:19:38.570
KATHERINE: Because going with my dad and my sister for these many years, they are not very adventurous eaters.

00:19:38.570 --> 00:19:40.970
RENIE: I'm not either really, but I'm going to try.

00:19:41.790 --> 00:19:42.830
KATHERINE: They are.

00:19:43.290 --> 00:19:49.070
KATHERINE: When going with them, we've really gotten into a routine of we go here, we eat this.

00:19:49.570 --> 00:19:51.690
KATHERINE: We're trying to branch out and eat at some different places.

00:19:51.970 --> 00:19:56.370
KATHERINE: We've never eaten there before and we wanted to do the Fantasmic dining package.

00:19:56.370 --> 00:19:56.930
VIRGINIA: Oh, nice.

00:19:56.930 --> 00:19:57.650
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:19:57.650 --> 00:19:59.250
KATHERINE: We did it last time we went.

00:19:59.250 --> 00:20:03.350
KATHERINE: The last time we went together, we took my son last August and we had done it then.

00:20:03.350 --> 00:20:12.770
KATHERINE: We just felt like it really took some of the burden off of trying to get to Fantasmic so early and where are we going to sit?

00:20:12.770 --> 00:20:14.930
KATHERINE: We decided that was worth it to do.

00:20:14.930 --> 00:20:17.470
KATHERINE: We went ahead and we booked the dining package.

00:20:17.470 --> 00:20:17.770
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:20:17.770 --> 00:20:20.750
KATHERINE: That's the only set thing that we have that day.

00:20:20.750 --> 00:20:21.510
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:20:21.510 --> 00:20:23.190
VIRGINIA: Well, sci-fi is great.

00:20:23.190 --> 00:20:26.610
VIRGINIA: Just make sure that you have your phone flashlight ready because it's very dark in there.

00:20:26.610 --> 00:20:30.210
VIRGINIA: If you want to be able to read the menu, it's helpful.

00:20:30.210 --> 00:20:30.550
KATHERINE: All right.

00:20:31.090 --> 00:20:37.710
VIRGINIA: Any attractions or shows that are your top priority for your Hollywood Studios Day?

00:20:37.710 --> 00:20:41.210
KATHERINE: So priority one is Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway.

00:20:41.250 --> 00:20:43.390
RENIE: Because I don't remember that ride at all.

00:20:43.390 --> 00:20:46.310
KATHERINE: Mom has been on it, but there's no memory of it.

00:20:46.310 --> 00:20:50.370
VIRGINIA: I feel like once you hear the song, you're going to remember.

00:20:50.370 --> 00:20:52.390
KATHERINE: I think it'll come back once you get in there.

00:20:52.390 --> 00:20:59.590
KATHERINE: So that's the plan is to go straight there and then to go back into Toy Story Land and get on Toy Story Mania.

00:21:00.830 --> 00:21:05.370
KATHERINE: Then she's kind of on the fence about Rise of the Resistance.

00:21:05.370 --> 00:21:07.130
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:21:07.130 --> 00:21:08.530
VIRGINIA: Explain the fence.

00:21:08.530 --> 00:21:11.390
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:21:11.390 --> 00:21:17.710
RENIE: Well, I get very bad vertigo, so I'm not sure how that would work.

00:21:17.710 --> 00:21:20.090
RENIE: I did get patches, whatever.

00:21:21.650 --> 00:21:25.030
RENIE: So we'll try those and see if that makes any difference.

00:21:25.030 --> 00:21:26.970
RENIE: I said to Katherine, I could just close my eyes.

00:21:28.230 --> 00:21:29.110
VIRGINIA: You could.

00:21:29.110 --> 00:21:35.350
VIRGINIA: I mean, I feel like there's a difference in Rise of the Resistance than, say, like Remy's.

00:21:35.350 --> 00:21:44.130
VIRGINIA: Remy's has the same sort of trackless cars, but you're kind of going everywhere and you're doing a lot of looking at screens.

00:21:44.130 --> 00:21:49.510
VIRGINIA: And in Rise of the Resistance, you're looking at a lot more like actual scenery.

00:21:49.510 --> 00:21:49.790
RENIE: Okay.

00:21:49.790 --> 00:21:56.290
VIRGINIA: So I feel like the screen part makes a difference because the screen is what's tricking your mind into feeling like you're going fast or whatever.

00:21:56.390 --> 00:21:59.270
VIRGINIA: And this like you're going through rooms and down hallways.

00:21:59.270 --> 00:21:59.610
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:21:59.610 --> 00:22:02.850
VIRGINIA: I've never, I mean, I don't really experience.

00:22:02.850 --> 00:22:05.870
RENIE: Well, we did Remy and I had no problem.

00:22:05.870 --> 00:22:13.370
VIRGINIA: If you had no problem with Remy, I would bet $100 that you will have no problem with Rise of the Resistance.

00:22:13.370 --> 00:22:16.690
VIRGINIA: Because so much like you ride in a car, right?

00:22:16.690 --> 00:22:16.830
RENIE: Yes.

00:22:16.830 --> 00:22:18.850
VIRGINIA: Like you drive a car and your passenger sometimes.

00:22:19.550 --> 00:22:21.650
VIRGINIA: Yeah, it's very similar.

00:22:21.650 --> 00:22:24.530
VIRGINIA: I mean, there is the one.

00:22:24.530 --> 00:22:25.570
VIRGINIA: Spoiler alert.

00:22:25.570 --> 00:22:27.370
VIRGINIA: Am I allowed to, Katherine?

00:22:27.370 --> 00:22:27.910
KATHERINE: Sure.

00:22:27.910 --> 00:22:30.170
KATHERINE: I mean, I know what it is, so.

00:22:30.170 --> 00:22:30.950
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:22:30.950 --> 00:22:34.170
VIRGINIA: So there's a tiny drop.

00:22:34.170 --> 00:22:34.810
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:22:34.810 --> 00:22:37.730
VIRGINIA: But it's not bad at all.

00:22:37.730 --> 00:22:42.690
VIRGINIA: It's like, I think some people go into it thinking like it's going to be like a Tower of Terror drop and it's not.

00:22:42.690 --> 00:22:44.650
VIRGINIA: It's so minuscule.

00:22:45.270 --> 00:22:52.170
VIRGINIA: So I hope that you make it off that fence and into the yard with all the rest of the kids.

00:22:54.230 --> 00:22:56.530
KATHERINE: So join the playground.

00:22:56.530 --> 00:22:57.390
VIRGINIA: Exactly.

00:22:57.390 --> 00:22:58.370
VIRGINIA: Come on.

00:22:58.370 --> 00:22:59.950
VIRGINIA: The weather is fine.

00:23:02.110 --> 00:23:03.230
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:07.230
VIRGINIA: So Monday, September 30th, which park are you headed to that day?

00:23:07.230 --> 00:23:09.010
KATHERINE: That is our Magic Kingdom Day.

00:23:09.010 --> 00:23:09.510
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:23:09.510 --> 00:23:12.010
VIRGINIA: And what time do you have to get there for Keys of the Kingdom?

00:23:13.150 --> 00:23:15.170
KATHERINE: We picked the 830 tour.

00:23:15.170 --> 00:23:16.330
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:23:16.330 --> 00:23:23.570
KATHERINE: And the reasoning for that was my friend who did it a few months ago, she did the 8 o'clock tour and she said they ate lunch at 1030.

00:23:24.910 --> 00:23:31.010
KATHERINE: So we said, well, we want to be early because we want the tour to be done early enough for us to have time to do other things.

00:23:31.010 --> 00:23:33.090
KATHERINE: But we also don't want to eat lunch at 1030.

00:23:33.090 --> 00:23:36.870
KATHERINE: So we picked the 830 tour with the thought that if it lunches at 11, we should be okay.

00:23:37.530 --> 00:23:42.650
RENIE: Yeah, and we also picked Monday because there's no Halloween party.

00:23:42.650 --> 00:23:47.090
RENIE: Good, good thinking we have more time than in the park.

00:23:47.090 --> 00:23:47.730
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:23:47.730 --> 00:23:52.010
VIRGINIA: Are you planning to do any kind of break on this day?

00:23:52.010 --> 00:23:55.810
VIRGINIA: Are you going to stay till the very end till happily ever after?

00:23:55.810 --> 00:23:56.490
VIRGINIA: What is your plan?

00:23:56.490 --> 00:24:02.250
VIRGINIA: Because you'll be getting started very early to try to get on a bus to be over there in time for that.

00:24:02.750 --> 00:24:07.270
KATHERINE: I think Magic Kingdom is going to be a start to finish day.

00:24:07.270 --> 00:24:08.510
RENIE: Drop till we drop.

00:24:08.510 --> 00:24:09.010
KATHERINE: Right.

00:24:09.010 --> 00:24:19.410
KATHERINE: Because the tour should be done around 1.30, 2 o'clock and the park closes, I want to say 10 o'clock.

00:24:19.410 --> 00:24:21.370
RENIE: I think we looked this up.

00:24:21.370 --> 00:24:23.250
KATHERINE: We did just look at this a few days ago.

00:24:23.330 --> 00:24:23.570
RENIE: We did.

00:24:23.570 --> 00:24:24.390
RENIE: I don't remember.

00:24:24.390 --> 00:24:25.430
RENIE: You're going to think I have dementia.

00:24:25.550 --> 00:24:26.910
RENIE: I mean, I can't remember.

00:24:26.910 --> 00:24:34.850
KATHERINE: No, but we wanted to make sure that we had enough time to do all the things that we want to do.

00:24:34.850 --> 00:24:40.090
KATHERINE: So I think the Hollywood Studios and then Spoiler Alert on Tuesday, we're going to Epcot.

00:24:40.090 --> 00:24:43.230
KATHERINE: Of both of those, we felt like we might.

00:24:43.230 --> 00:24:45.810
RENIE: There's time in the day that we can.

00:24:45.810 --> 00:24:46.070
KATHERINE: Right.

00:24:46.070 --> 00:24:50.030
KATHERINE: And those will both be on the Skyliner and we'll be on the Skyliner if we wanted to.

00:24:50.030 --> 00:24:50.930
VIRGINIA: Take a break.

00:24:50.930 --> 00:24:51.650
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:24:51.650 --> 00:24:52.050
RENIE: Yeah.

00:24:52.050 --> 00:24:52.490
KATHERINE: Okay.

00:24:52.490 --> 00:24:54.290
KATHERINE: Magic Kingdom will be open until 10 o'clock.

00:24:54.690 --> 00:24:55.730
KATHERINE: Monday 30th.

00:24:55.730 --> 00:24:56.250
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:24:56.250 --> 00:24:56.490
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:24:56.490 --> 00:24:59.710
KATHERINE: That's so you say so roughly two to 10, so eight hours.

00:24:59.710 --> 00:25:01.090
KATHERINE: We want to go to the fireworks.

00:25:01.090 --> 00:25:02.390
KATHERINE: We want to see the parade.

00:25:02.390 --> 00:25:04.730
KATHERINE: So put that in.

00:25:04.730 --> 00:25:08.830
KATHERINE: We have a dinner reservation at the plaza, which is another one that we haven't eaten at.

00:25:08.830 --> 00:25:09.870
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:25:09.870 --> 00:25:12.850
KATHERINE: I think that's at seven ish.

00:25:15.750 --> 00:25:16.250
KATHERINE: And then.

00:25:16.250 --> 00:25:20.310
VIRGINIA: Plaza is the one if you're looking at the castle that's on the left, right?

00:25:21.350 --> 00:25:21.810
KATHERINE: Right.

00:25:21.810 --> 00:25:22.030
KATHERINE: Correct.

00:25:22.030 --> 00:25:23.330
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:25:23.330 --> 00:25:23.550
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:25:23.550 --> 00:25:23.850
KATHERINE: Correct.

00:25:23.850 --> 00:25:24.110
KATHERINE: Correct.

00:25:26.690 --> 00:25:26.950
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:25:27.250 --> 00:25:27.970
VIRGINIA: I was just trying.

00:25:27.970 --> 00:25:31.750
VIRGINIA: Like sometimes I get that in Crystal Palace a little confused in my mind.

00:25:31.750 --> 00:25:36.950
VIRGINIA: And the plaza is the one I've been to multiple times, and I keep not going to Crystal Palace.

00:25:36.950 --> 00:25:38.910
VIRGINIA: So I need to do Crystal Palace at some point.

00:25:38.910 --> 00:25:42.050
RENIE: Crystal Palace is kind of around the bend a little bit.

00:25:42.050 --> 00:25:42.410
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:25:42.630 --> 00:25:45.330
VIRGINIA: It's past the ice cream parlor.

00:25:45.850 --> 00:25:54.850
KATHERINE: The character dining where you can see in because it's all big windows and you can see Winnie the Pooh, and Tinger, and Piglet, and Eeyore going around and making friends with everyone.

00:25:54.850 --> 00:26:03.250
RENIE: I first went there when it was just buffet breakfast, and that was way, way, way back.

00:26:04.970 --> 00:26:11.150
VIRGINIA: They have, I think it's, is that the place they have the churro waffles on the menu?

00:26:11.570 --> 00:26:17.130
VIRGINIA: I think it is, and that's why I keep being like, I need to go there because I love the churros and I love waffles.

00:26:17.130 --> 00:26:19.890
VIRGINIA: So a perfect marriage.

00:26:19.890 --> 00:26:20.630
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:26:20.630 --> 00:26:26.110
VIRGINIA: So at Magic Kingdom, what are your priorities outside of writing Tiana's for the first time?

00:26:26.110 --> 00:26:27.570
VIRGINIA: Because that's very exciting.

00:26:27.570 --> 00:26:30.110
KATHERINE: Pirates.

00:26:30.110 --> 00:26:30.650
KATHERINE: You got to get on.

00:26:30.650 --> 00:26:31.430
KATHERINE: It's a small world.

00:26:31.430 --> 00:26:33.190
KATHERINE: That's just classic.

00:26:36.130 --> 00:26:36.990
RENIE: We're the poo.

00:26:36.990 --> 00:26:42.030
RENIE: I want to see the new updated bears, country bears, jamboree.

00:26:42.050 --> 00:26:43.630
VIRGINIA: Oh, that's true.

00:26:43.630 --> 00:26:45.650
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:26:45.650 --> 00:26:49.470
VIRGINIA: What is each of your favorite lands in Magic Kingdom?

00:26:50.750 --> 00:26:52.630
RENIE: That's a tough one.

00:26:52.630 --> 00:26:53.130
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:26:53.130 --> 00:26:54.510
VIRGINIA: It's Sophie's choice.

00:26:54.510 --> 00:26:55.530
RENIE: Yeah.

00:26:55.530 --> 00:26:57.730
RENIE: I'm going to say Fantasyland, I think.

00:26:57.730 --> 00:27:01.010
KATHERINE: I think Fantasyland, you could only pick one to go to.

00:27:01.290 --> 00:27:06.590
KATHERINE: Fantasyland has the most stuff happening, but.

00:27:06.590 --> 00:27:08.370
VIRGINIA: I'm just thinking vibes, really.

00:27:08.370 --> 00:27:08.730
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:27:08.730 --> 00:27:14.390
KATHERINE: Theming wise and sort of vibe wise, probably Frontierland.

00:27:15.830 --> 00:27:24.710
RENIE: It's going to be interesting to see when they change over Tom Sawyer's Island and all of that, that they're going to be doing over there, how that's going to change things.

00:27:24.710 --> 00:27:25.070
RENIE: Oh, yeah.

00:27:25.070 --> 00:27:26.630
VIRGINIA: That will be very interesting.

00:27:26.630 --> 00:27:26.830
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:27:27.930 --> 00:27:34.570
VIRGINIA: And we'll have to live through all that construction, but hopefully it will be worth it.

00:27:34.570 --> 00:27:35.710
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:27:35.710 --> 00:27:38.750
VIRGINIA: Tuesday, October 1st, you said Epcot.

00:27:38.750 --> 00:27:45.930
VIRGINIA: So you said you're not a thrill person, no plans to do Guardians of the Galaxy?

00:27:45.930 --> 00:27:46.830
RENIE: No.

00:27:46.830 --> 00:27:47.230
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:27:47.230 --> 00:27:50.130
RENIE: Well, she wants to do it by herself.

00:27:50.130 --> 00:27:51.370
KATHERINE: No.

00:27:51.370 --> 00:27:51.950
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:27:51.950 --> 00:27:52.890
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:27:52.890 --> 00:28:04.190
VIRGINIA: Well, if on the day you're like, I really have to write this in spite of my mom not wanting to write it, the individual Lightning Lane users, maybe it will take too long to do as long as you're doing it that way.

00:28:04.190 --> 00:28:06.910
VIRGINIA: The virtual queue takes a while.

00:28:06.910 --> 00:28:07.530
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:28:07.530 --> 00:28:19.290
KATHERINE: Well, I think we talked about this in December that Lucy and I had done the virtual queue, gotten into the virtual queue, our number came up, we went over there and it was still going to be a 75-minute wait.

00:28:19.390 --> 00:28:19.630
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:28:19.630 --> 00:28:22.490
KATHERINE: So we said thanks but no thanks.

00:28:22.490 --> 00:28:26.490
KATHERINE: But no, I don't know.

00:28:26.490 --> 00:28:27.730
KATHERINE: I can wait.

00:28:28.810 --> 00:28:30.650
VIRGINIA: You'll get to do other things to do.

00:28:30.650 --> 00:28:31.710
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:28:31.710 --> 00:28:32.230
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:28:32.230 --> 00:28:36.070
VIRGINIA: And this will be food and wine, right?

00:28:36.070 --> 00:28:36.650
KATHERINE: Yes.

00:28:36.650 --> 00:28:37.550
VIRGINIA: We'll still be going on?

00:28:37.550 --> 00:28:38.770
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:28:38.770 --> 00:28:39.170
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:28:39.170 --> 00:28:43.010
VIRGINIA: Are you planning to explore some of the booths?

00:28:44.750 --> 00:28:45.850
KATHERINE: We looked at the menus.

00:28:47.010 --> 00:28:49.850
KATHERINE: I don't know that there was anything that we said.

00:28:49.850 --> 00:28:50.290
KATHERINE: Wow.

00:28:50.290 --> 00:28:53.330
KATHERINE: We absolutely have to go out of our way to get this.

00:28:53.330 --> 00:28:54.110
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:28:54.110 --> 00:29:01.490
KATHERINE: But I think probably if we're in the park and we're looking for something to eat, we'll see what's around and maybe we'll try something.

00:29:01.490 --> 00:29:03.890
VIRGINIA: But okay.

00:29:03.890 --> 00:29:10.050
VIRGINIA: Have both of you seen the new nighttime show at Epcot at this point?

00:29:10.050 --> 00:29:10.910
KATHERINE: I have.

00:29:10.910 --> 00:29:11.410
KATHERINE: She hasn't.

00:29:11.570 --> 00:29:14.390
RENIE: Yeah, I have not because it was a silly old show when I was in August.

00:29:14.390 --> 00:29:16.750
KATHERINE: It was Epcot Forever when we went.

00:29:16.750 --> 00:29:20.590
VIRGINIA: Epcot For A Minute is what I like to call it.

00:29:21.990 --> 00:29:22.910
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:29:22.910 --> 00:29:28.590
VIRGINIA: Well, I think that the new one that they have is, it's fine.

00:29:28.590 --> 00:29:32.850
VIRGINIA: I feel like I've seen it once and I don't feel like I need to go out of my way to see it.

00:29:33.010 --> 00:29:34.630
VIRGINIA: It's no happily ever after.

00:29:34.630 --> 00:29:35.310
VIRGINIA: That's for sure.

00:29:35.950 --> 00:29:37.250
KATHERINE: It's better than Epcot Forever.

00:29:38.990 --> 00:29:43.630
KATHERINE: I would say a step below Harmonious.

00:29:43.630 --> 00:29:44.290
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:29:44.290 --> 00:29:44.950
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:44.950 --> 00:29:46.730
VIRGINIA: Because I'm a Harmonious fan.

00:29:46.730 --> 00:29:47.170
KATHERINE: Are you?

00:29:47.170 --> 00:29:47.450
KATHERINE: Okay.

00:29:47.450 --> 00:29:51.610
VIRGINIA: I know a lot of people turn their nose up at it because they're like, oh, Illuminations, Illuminations.

00:29:53.010 --> 00:29:54.690
VIRGINIA: Illuminations is fine.

00:29:54.690 --> 00:30:02.970
VIRGINIA: What I would like is a combination of the two because Illuminations had the globe thing that it was very easy to see no matter where you are on the water.

00:30:02.970 --> 00:30:13.410
VIRGINIA: But I liked the music and I know it might be sacrilege to say, but the bringing in of the intellectual properties and including the characters in the show for Harmonious.

00:30:14.950 --> 00:30:22.090
VIRGINIA: I would say almost every day that I work, whether it's from home or in person, I have my headphones on and I'm listening to Harmonious while I work.

00:30:23.150 --> 00:30:28.210
VIRGINIA: I'm a big Harmonious fan, but I did not like the barges and I didn't like how they did that.

00:30:28.210 --> 00:30:31.210
VIRGINIA: They needed a globe and then do Harmonious on top of that.

00:30:32.430 --> 00:30:37.710
KATHERINE: We only saw it the one time and we were not at the right angle for it.

00:30:37.710 --> 00:30:41.310
KATHERINE: So if I could see it from the right angle, maybe I would feel differently.

00:30:41.310 --> 00:30:43.850
VIRGINIA: But yeah, yeah, I haven't checked Disney Plus.

00:30:43.850 --> 00:30:44.690
VIRGINIA: Maybe it's on there.

00:30:44.690 --> 00:30:48.710
VIRGINIA: Maybe I should go and maybe I should watch that tonight before bed.

00:30:50.590 --> 00:30:51.510
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:30:51.510 --> 00:30:54.630
VIRGINIA: Anything else you're planning on for Epcot?

00:30:55.750 --> 00:30:57.590
KATHERINE: So, yes.

00:30:58.930 --> 00:31:07.150
KATHERINE: One of our objectives for this trip is, mom is a huge French onion soup fan.

00:31:07.150 --> 00:31:07.630
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:31:07.630 --> 00:31:10.350
KATHERINE: French onion soup at a place, she's going to get it.

00:31:10.350 --> 00:31:10.730
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:31:10.730 --> 00:31:12.130
VIRGINIA: Same with my husband.

00:31:12.130 --> 00:31:15.090
KATHERINE: Okay.

00:31:15.790 --> 00:31:20.910
KATHERINE: She's chasing, there was a place that we used to go to, which is no longer there in South Hampton, right?

00:31:21.810 --> 00:31:22.670
KATHERINE: Megan's.

00:31:22.670 --> 00:31:23.570
KATHERINE: Is that the name of the place?

00:31:23.570 --> 00:31:24.850
KATHERINE: The French onion soup?

00:31:24.850 --> 00:31:25.070
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:31:25.070 --> 00:31:26.130
KATHERINE: So Megan's is no longer there.

00:31:26.590 --> 00:31:28.410
RENIE: I think it was in Watermill, but anyway.

00:31:28.410 --> 00:31:29.930
KATHERINE: Okay.

00:31:29.930 --> 00:31:39.210
KATHERINE: In any event, that was the top tier French onion soup, which she is in search of a replacement for Megan's French onion soup.

00:31:39.210 --> 00:31:52.810
KATHERINE: So we have reservations at Grand Floridian Cafe and at Chefs de France, and we haven't decided which one to do because they both have French onion soup.

00:31:52.810 --> 00:31:53.170
KATHERINE: I don't know.

00:31:53.170 --> 00:31:55.330
KATHERINE: Do you have any thoughts on that, Virginia?

00:31:56.630 --> 00:32:01.350
VIRGINIA: I know that I have had the Chefs de France French onion soup.

00:32:01.350 --> 00:32:06.330
VIRGINIA: I'm trying to remember if I've had it at Grand Floridian.

00:32:06.330 --> 00:32:07.590
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:32:07.590 --> 00:32:10.150
VIRGINIA: The Chefs de France one is really good.

00:32:10.170 --> 00:32:11.550
KATHERINE: Okay.

00:32:11.550 --> 00:32:15.790
KATHERINE: I think that seems to be the default.

00:32:16.790 --> 00:32:21.630
KATHERINE: If you Google French onion soup at Walt Disney World, that I think is what comes up.

00:32:21.630 --> 00:32:24.930
KATHERINE: I did have to do some digging to see where else there was French onion soup.

00:32:24.930 --> 00:32:28.850
RENIE: But I think we've decided that it's going to depend on where we are.

00:32:28.850 --> 00:32:33.590
RENIE: Because one is a lunchtime reservation and one time the other one is a dinner reservation.

00:32:33.590 --> 00:32:38.050
RENIE: Well, depending on where we are and how long it's going to take to get back and forth.

00:32:38.050 --> 00:32:42.430
KATHERINE: That's true, but we do have to cancel two hours in advance.

00:32:43.230 --> 00:32:46.950
KATHERINE: So we'll have to decide in that morning what are we doing.

00:32:46.950 --> 00:32:51.170
KATHERINE: But you also wanted to go to the Grand Floridian because you have not been there.

00:32:51.170 --> 00:32:54.570
KATHERINE: So we thought, well, we'll be at Epcot.

00:32:54.570 --> 00:32:55.590
KATHERINE: We'll just get on the monorail.

00:32:55.590 --> 00:32:58.390
KATHERINE: We can ride over there and we can eat lunch.

00:32:58.390 --> 00:33:01.510
KATHERINE: Or we're going to go and have the French onion soup at dinner.

00:33:01.510 --> 00:33:06.770
KATHERINE: So I know it's really up to you because I have been there and eaten there.

00:33:08.130 --> 00:33:09.170
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:33:09.170 --> 00:33:10.370
VIRGINIA: France is my favorite pavilion.

00:33:10.510 --> 00:33:16.110
VIRGINIA: So I would probably lean towards that only because then you're right by the bakery.

00:33:16.110 --> 00:33:21.350
VIRGINIA: So you can go get your little macarons for your dessert.

00:33:21.350 --> 00:33:28.950
VIRGINIA: But that kind of makes a nice little midday break though if you hop on to the monorail and sit for a little bit and go over there.

00:33:30.370 --> 00:33:35.670
KATHERINE: We might still do that and just not do a full sit down dinner or sit down lunch.

00:33:35.770 --> 00:33:38.230
KATHERINE: We might just go and ride around and maybe stop.

00:33:39.370 --> 00:33:43.070
VIRGINIA: But what is the quick service at the Grand Floridian?

00:33:43.070 --> 00:33:44.690
VIRGINIA: It is called, what is it called?

00:33:44.690 --> 00:33:45.490
KATHERINE: Gasparilla?

00:33:45.490 --> 00:33:46.390
VIRGINIA: Gasparilla Grill.

00:33:46.450 --> 00:33:47.470
KATHERINE: The one at the Grand Floridian.

00:33:47.830 --> 00:33:54.930
KATHERINE: So that is an option or Captain Cooks at the Polly, I know has the famous meatballs.

00:33:56.030 --> 00:33:59.290
VIRGINIA: Those are good, the Thai Coconut Meatballs.

00:33:59.290 --> 00:34:02.150
KATHERINE: So I also thought about maybe doing that.

00:34:02.150 --> 00:34:05.470
RENIE: This is getting to sound more and more like an eating trip.

00:34:08.130 --> 00:34:28.790
KATHERINE: Well, I mean, it kind of is because there's not, other than Magic Kingdom, which there's a lot of rides that will do their Epcot, it's pretty much Remy, which I do get a little queasy on, so I'll do it, but it's not high on my priority list.

00:34:29.890 --> 00:34:38.750
KATHERINE: Frozen, Spaceship Earth, Soarin, and then other stuff if we get on the land or other things.

00:34:38.750 --> 00:34:42.010
KATHERINE: Test track is closed, so even if we wanted to, we can't get on test track.

00:34:42.010 --> 00:34:42.590
RENIE: Little Mermaid.

00:34:42.590 --> 00:34:44.530
KATHERINE: She's not going to go on Guardians.

00:34:44.790 --> 00:34:48.190
KATHERINE: Mission Space, I've never been on and have no interest in.

00:34:48.190 --> 00:34:50.330
VIRGINIA: Let's not forget Figment, ladies.

00:34:50.510 --> 00:34:51.450
KATHERINE: Well, we'll have to do that.

00:34:51.510 --> 00:34:53.130
KATHERINE: We have to do Figment.

00:34:53.130 --> 00:34:55.510
VIRGINIA: Figment is always there for you.

00:34:56.770 --> 00:34:59.710
KATHERINE: The three cameos are the Grand Fiesta Tour in Mexico.

00:34:59.710 --> 00:35:01.470
KATHERINE: He also loves that one, so we'll have to do that one for him.

00:35:01.470 --> 00:35:03.890
VIRGINIA: But many of those don't even have a big weight.

00:35:03.890 --> 00:35:08.610
VIRGINIA: So yeah, and they're all closed together with the exception of the two.

00:35:08.830 --> 00:35:26.290
KATHERINE: We're expecting to have some time to play with on our Epcot Day, and so it's just a question of are we spending that time in the World Showcase really going into all the countries, because we haven't really done that before as a family.

00:35:29.350 --> 00:35:31.770
KATHERINE: We always went to the store in Japan.

00:35:31.770 --> 00:35:33.570
KATHERINE: We usually ate lunch in Mexico.

00:35:33.570 --> 00:35:36.330
KATHERINE: We've done, you go and you see the movie in Canada.

00:35:36.330 --> 00:35:37.750
KATHERINE: So we've gone to those countries.

00:35:37.750 --> 00:35:40.350
RENIE: Great Britain usually has the band in Great Britain.

00:35:40.350 --> 00:35:43.210
KATHERINE: The band, yeah, back in the UK, the British invasion.

00:35:43.210 --> 00:35:55.530
KATHERINE: But as far as like going into Italy or Germany or some of the other pavilions that don't really have an attraction or something else to really see, we haven't spent much time in them.

00:35:55.530 --> 00:36:11.890
KATHERINE: So it's either going to be going into the countries and really, really exploring or going into the food booths and trying the food, or maybe taking a break and going and doing the Monterey Resort Hopping and checking out the resorts.

00:36:11.890 --> 00:36:12.710
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:36:12.710 --> 00:36:16.510
VIRGINIA: Well, you'll see how you feel in the moment and you'll do it.

00:36:16.510 --> 00:36:21.930
VIRGINIA: That's the great thing about being on a trip with only one other person, is it's very easy to pivot.

00:36:23.430 --> 00:36:23.870
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:36:23.870 --> 00:36:28.730
VIRGINIA: So Wednesday, October 2nd, your departure day, what time is your flight?

00:36:28.730 --> 00:36:30.070
KATHERINE: It's at 4.30.

00:36:30.070 --> 00:36:30.410
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:36:30.410 --> 00:36:33.450
VIRGINIA: So you've got a little bit of time to play with in the morning.

00:36:33.450 --> 00:36:36.290
VIRGINIA: Are you planning to eat breakfast at your resort?

00:36:37.730 --> 00:36:42.250
KATHERINE: We are not really breakfast people.

00:36:42.250 --> 00:36:46.750
KATHERINE: I mean, we will bring some sort of breakfast.

00:36:46.750 --> 00:36:50.690
KATHERINE: I think, mom, you said you were bringing some oatmeal packets and stuff.

00:36:50.690 --> 00:36:55.770
KATHERINE: We're not really pay for Disney breakfast people, we can avoid it.

00:36:55.770 --> 00:36:57.930
KATHERINE: So I don't think so.

00:36:57.930 --> 00:37:03.650
KATHERINE: So we will be at Caribbean Beach and we are doing the switch on Tuesday.

00:37:03.930 --> 00:37:08.550
KATHERINE: So our Epcot Day, we'll be moving over to Caribbean Beach.

00:37:08.550 --> 00:37:09.050
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:37:09.050 --> 00:37:11.670
VIRGINIA: Are you going to have Disney move your things?

00:37:11.670 --> 00:37:12.750
RENIE: She's very nervous about that.

00:37:12.750 --> 00:37:13.750
KATHERINE: What do you think about that?

00:37:13.750 --> 00:37:18.830
KATHERINE: Because we've never done a splits day and I'm a little hesitant to give them all of our stuff, even though it's Disney.

00:37:18.830 --> 00:37:20.470
VIRGINIA: I have never had a problem with that.

00:37:20.470 --> 00:37:20.930
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:37:20.930 --> 00:37:21.250
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:37:21.250 --> 00:37:22.670
KATHERINE: No, you never had a problem.

00:37:22.670 --> 00:37:22.890
VIRGINIA: No.

00:37:23.490 --> 00:37:31.490
VIRGINIA: The only problem I've heard people encounter has been, I had them move my things and then it turned out I needed something from in my things.

00:37:31.490 --> 00:37:32.810
VIRGINIA: So I've never had a problem.

00:37:33.010 --> 00:37:38.050
VIRGINIA: Anytime I've done a split stay, I have usually used that transfer service just fine.

00:37:38.050 --> 00:37:45.790
VIRGINIA: I always, if I get there and I'm checking into a resort and my room's not ready, I utilize Bell Services.

00:37:45.790 --> 00:37:49.590
VIRGINIA: I will use it on my checkout day for them to hold my things.

00:37:49.590 --> 00:37:50.650
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I've never had a problem.

00:37:50.650 --> 00:38:05.150
VIRGINIA: So if you take it in the morning and drop it off before you go to Epcot, your things will probably be over at Caribbean Beach, like, I don't know, four o'clock, like sometime in the mid afternoon, it'll be there for you.

00:38:05.150 --> 00:38:06.910
VIRGINIA: So I would recommend it.

00:38:06.910 --> 00:38:12.330
KATHERINE: Now, do we have to go to Bell Services or will they have already taken our stuff to our room?

00:38:12.330 --> 00:38:13.350
VIRGINIA: It depends.

00:38:13.350 --> 00:38:16.750
VIRGINIA: So normally you would have to go to Bell Services and get it.

00:38:16.750 --> 00:38:23.350
VIRGINIA: The last time I was there, they put stuff in my room for the first time since pre-pandemic.

00:38:23.350 --> 00:38:25.830
VIRGINIA: I was just like, the Disney magic is back.

00:38:25.830 --> 00:38:26.910
VIRGINIA: My stuff is in my room.

00:38:28.290 --> 00:38:37.370
VIRGINIA: But also, one thing I haven't been thinking about on this is that you are staying at Pop and you're doing a transfer to Caribbean Beach.

00:38:37.370 --> 00:38:46.210
VIRGINIA: So in your case, I might consider doing it myself, dropping it off.

00:38:46.210 --> 00:38:48.370
VIRGINIA: Well, no, I changed my mind on that.

00:38:48.370 --> 00:38:50.410
VIRGINIA: I take that all back and here's why.

00:38:50.410 --> 00:39:00.010
VIRGINIA: Because if you take the Skyliner and get off at Caribbean Beach to purely drop your things, the place that the Skyliner drops off and the main building are so far apart.

00:39:00.010 --> 00:39:07.030
VIRGINIA: I would totally use Bell Services and just make sure that you have everything that you need for your day with you.

00:39:07.030 --> 00:39:12.010
VIRGINIA: And then by the time you come back to your resort, you will be good to go.

00:39:12.010 --> 00:39:12.390
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:39:12.550 --> 00:39:22.390
KATHERINE: We thought about that too of taking it over ourselves, but we did the math on how early would we need to get up to get over there, to take stuff to Bell Services, to get back to the Skyline.

00:39:22.490 --> 00:39:26.130
KATHERINE: And I just don't think we're going to want to do all of that.

00:39:26.130 --> 00:39:26.630
RENIE: I don't think so.

00:39:26.630 --> 00:39:30.590
KATHERINE: So we think we probably will end up going the Bell Services route.

00:39:30.590 --> 00:39:30.830
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:39:30.830 --> 00:39:40.970
KATHERINE: It would be great if they would just put the stuff in our room because we won't be at Caribbean Beach until Epcot is closed and we get on the Skyliner and come back.

00:39:40.970 --> 00:39:49.050
KATHERINE: So it's going to be already getting late and then the idea of getting all the way over there and then the room doesn't really appeal to me.

00:39:49.230 --> 00:39:52.450
VIRGINIA: But if we have to, you know what I would do?

00:39:52.450 --> 00:39:58.790
VIRGINIA: I would just ask them when you pick up your things at Bell Services at the end of the night, do you have a golf cart?

00:39:58.790 --> 00:40:02.230
VIRGINIA: Would you mind helping me to my room?

00:40:02.230 --> 00:40:07.390
VIRGINIA: Or you could say, could you bring this to my room and you walk off and then they bring it over?

00:40:07.390 --> 00:40:09.750
VIRGINIA: Either way, but just ask nicely.

00:40:09.750 --> 00:40:11.710
VIRGINIA: The worst they can say is no, we don't have time.

00:40:11.710 --> 00:40:13.610
VIRGINIA: But I bet they would.

00:40:13.610 --> 00:40:23.410
VIRGINIA: When I have stayed at places where the building is far, kind of far like Saratoga or whatever, they're just like, yeah, hop in the golf cart and then they drive you over.

00:40:25.410 --> 00:40:27.290
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:40:27.290 --> 00:40:32.130
VIRGINIA: What are you going to be doing on that last day if you're going to be eating breakfast in the room?

00:40:32.130 --> 00:40:37.370
VIRGINIA: Are you going to do any exploring of Caribbean Beach and Riviera in that area?

00:40:37.370 --> 00:40:44.770
KATHERINE: This is again, another one of those sort of free play times where it depends on what else we get up to during the rest of the week.

00:40:47.250 --> 00:40:57.790
KATHERINE: So either exploring Caribbean Beach, we'd like to check out the pool because I know the pool there is very elaborate and we'd like to at least see it.

00:40:57.790 --> 00:40:59.130
KATHERINE: And I think it's going to be pretty hot.

00:40:59.130 --> 00:41:02.470
KATHERINE: So I think we might we might want to take a dip in the pool.

00:41:05.450 --> 00:41:07.410
KATHERINE: Talked about maybe going to Riviera.

00:41:08.770 --> 00:41:23.830
KATHERINE: If we don't do the monorail prior to Wednesday, might consider doing it on Wednesday, might go back to Disney Springs depending on how much time we get at Disney Springs on the first day.

00:41:24.950 --> 00:41:27.230
KATHERINE: So we have we have a few different ideas of mine.

00:41:27.230 --> 00:41:32.850
KATHERINE: And we'll also see how tired we are because we might just say, we're just going to be at the pool for the day.

00:41:32.850 --> 00:41:34.070
KATHERINE: We don't want to go anywhere.

00:41:34.070 --> 00:41:35.030
KATHERINE: We just want to relax.

00:41:35.030 --> 00:41:36.810
KATHERINE: So we'll see.

00:41:36.810 --> 00:41:37.770
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:41:37.770 --> 00:41:42.890
VIRGINIA: Well, I will very much look forward to hearing how all of your decisions turn out.

00:41:42.890 --> 00:41:45.030
VIRGINIA: You're going to make them in the moment.

00:41:45.030 --> 00:41:49.670
VIRGINIA: Or if you wanted to turn it into a game, you could do it like, so choose your own adventure.

00:41:49.670 --> 00:41:52.270
VIRGINIA: Pick which hand, which hand you pick in your head.

00:41:52.270 --> 00:41:53.990
VIRGINIA: You're like, this means this, this means this.

00:41:53.990 --> 00:41:55.390
VIRGINIA: And then you just do it.

00:41:55.390 --> 00:41:56.230
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:41:56.230 --> 00:41:58.270
VIRGINIA: So it will be a lot of fun.

00:41:58.410 --> 00:42:01.190
VIRGINIA: And you seem to have a really fun relationship.

00:42:01.190 --> 00:42:04.770
VIRGINIA: So I'm just really looking forward to following along.

00:42:04.770 --> 00:42:05.090
KATHERINE: Yeah.

00:42:05.090 --> 00:42:06.250
KATHERINE: Well, we're excited.

00:42:06.490 --> 00:42:11.930
KATHERINE: It's kind of surreal that it's finally happening.

00:42:11.930 --> 00:42:12.770
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:42:12.770 --> 00:42:14.010
VIRGINIA: That's usually how it is.

00:42:14.010 --> 00:42:15.850
VIRGINIA: You're like, oh, it's so far away.

00:42:15.850 --> 00:42:16.630
VIRGINIA: It's so far away.

00:42:16.630 --> 00:42:18.510
VIRGINIA: And then suddenly there it is.

00:42:18.510 --> 00:42:23.370
KATHERINE: And I'm already kind of getting like pre sad about it being over.

00:42:24.990 --> 00:42:27.030
KATHERINE: Oh, we've been looking forward to it for so long.

00:42:27.110 --> 00:42:30.790
KATHERINE: And it's like, oh, well, you know, two weeks from now, we'll be done.

00:42:30.790 --> 00:42:32.110
KATHERINE: But then we're going back in January.

00:42:32.110 --> 00:42:34.750
VIRGINIA: So you're going, A, you're going back in January.

00:42:34.750 --> 00:42:36.430
VIRGINIA: B, we're going to talk again.

00:42:36.430 --> 00:42:38.470
VIRGINIA: So you're going to have to relive it as we talk.

00:42:38.470 --> 00:42:42.030
VIRGINIA: And C, then it will be preserved for all podcast history.

00:42:42.030 --> 00:42:44.070
VIRGINIA: And you can re listen to it anytime you want.

00:42:44.070 --> 00:42:44.410
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:42:44.410 --> 00:42:45.190
KATHERINE: Right.

00:42:45.190 --> 00:42:46.450
RENIE: OK, that's right.

00:42:46.450 --> 00:42:46.830
KATHERINE: All right.

00:42:46.830 --> 00:42:50.050
VIRGINIA: Well, ladies, travel safely and I will see you when you get back.

00:42:50.050 --> 00:42:50.630
RENIE: Thank you.

00:42:50.630 --> 00:42:51.850
VIRGINIA: Thank you.

00:42:53.010 --> 00:42:55.130
VIRGINIA: Thank you so much, Katherine and Renie.

00:42:55.730 --> 00:43:02.150
VIRGINIA: Listeners, please make sure you head over to Katherine's podcast, Parents On Disney, which is linked in the show notes.

00:43:02.150 --> 00:43:08.430
VIRGINIA: Also, if you'd like to listen to the episodes from her girls trip, you can find those in the show notes as well.

00:43:08.430 --> 00:43:14.070
VIRGINIA: For those of you who don't like to wait for things, Katherine and Renie's Post Trip Report episode is up next.

00:43:14.070 --> 00:43:19.350
VIRGINIA: And as I mentioned before the episode, you won't hear any crackling from Renie's track when you get there.

00:43:19.350 --> 00:43:20.750
VIRGINIA: That's all for now.

00:43:20.750 --> 00:43:23.070
VIRGINIA: Keep daydreaming about where you long to be.