Pre-Trip Report: Maria and Chrissy’s Annual Sister Trip (January 2024)

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

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VIRGINIA: I am your host, Virginia.

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VIRGINIA: Today, I am so happy to welcome back one of my Disney dames, Maria.

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VIRGINIA: This time, she is joined by her sister Chrissy to talk through the plans for their annual sister trip to Walt Disney World.

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VIRGINIA: Ever since I met Chrissy, I have been hoping to get this dynamic duo on the podcast together.

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VIRGINIA: Separately, they are both a lot of fun, but together, they are incredible.

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VIRGINIA: You'll see what I mean very soon.

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VIRGINIA: Before we get started, I wanted to remind everyone that if you are interested in being a trip report guest, the link is in the show notes.

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VIRGINIA: I am specifically looking for people traveling in April and beyond.

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VIRGINIA: Now, before we jump into the interview, one note as you listen.

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VIRGINIA: Maria and Chrissy have plans to eat at Summer House on the Lake, and for some inexplicable reason, and in spite of the fact that they say it right, every single time, I continuously refer to it as Summer Place on the Lake.

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VIRGINIA: So please forgive me.

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VIRGINIA: I'm going to blame it on not having had enough coffee the morning that we interviewed.

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VIRGINIA: If I had had some Joffries, that surely wouldn't have happened, right?

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VIRGINIA: All right, with my confession out of the way, here are Maria and Chrissy.

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VIRGINIA: I am so happy to welcome back to the podcast Maria, who listeners may remember from a trip where she was trying to convince her husband to learn to love Disney.

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VIRGINIA: And this time she is joined by her sister Chrissy.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome Maria and Chrissy.

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VIRGINIA: It is so nice to see you both here on this this cold January day.

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VIRGINIA: Before we get into all the details of your fantastic trip, I'm going to ask you to introduce yourselves a bit.

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VIRGINIA: So Maria, listeners may know you at this point if they listened to your previous episode.

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VIRGINIA: And if you did not listen to her previous episode, I encourage you to go back and do that.

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VIRGINIA: But can you just give us a short synopsis of who you are and how you came to fall in love with the Disney parks?

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MARIA: Sure.

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MARIA: Again, my name is Maria.

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MARIA: I am a Pennsylvania-born New Yorker.

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MARIA: I've been here now for a little over 10 years.

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MARIA: My husband, Mike.

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MARIA: And when Chrissy and I were kids, our parents, like every wonderful parents in the world, not everywhere, parents, but they took us to Disney World a couple of times when we were kids, grew up like every holiday.

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MARIA: When there was a Disney movie that was coming out of the vault for the holidays, we got the Disney movies.

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MARIA: We were very much Disney kids, even if we didn't get to the park all the time, we have seen like all the Disney movies.

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MARIA: And now I am a very proud Disney adult.

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MARIA: So very excited to be going back.

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MARIA: When Mike and I went down in October, our Uber driver from the airport over to Art of Animation and asked like, how many times have you been here before?

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MARIA: And I counted and that was trick number 16.

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MARIA: So this is trick number 17 for me to Disney.

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MARIA: So I'm very excited to be sharing that with my Chrissy.

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VIRGINIA: Nice and welcome Chrissy.

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VIRGINIA: Tell us a little, I imagine your back story is very similar to Maria's since you grew up together.

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CHRISSY: Just a little bit.

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VIRGINIA: Just a little bit.

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MARIA: Crazy how that works.

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VIRGINIA: Tell us who you are, where you're coming to us from, and anything else you want to note about why you love Disney.

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CHRISSY: I am, so the Kajano siblings like to be within spitting public transit distance of each other.

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CHRISSY: So I'm down in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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CHRISSY: And I, like you said, my background is pretty similar to Maria, although I will say that Maria's maybe, Disney adultness is a little bit more than me.

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CHRISSY: She's a little bit more proudly wear it on your sleeve than I am.

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CHRISSY: I have a persona to keep as a in charge consultant lady.

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CHRISSY: Maria has a wonderful ability to have it be like very charming.

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CHRISSY: So for me, going to Disney is just as much about spending time with my sister as it is being in this really wonderful and magical place.

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CHRISSY: And I, being a super nerd, I very much, frankly, probably more than some of the other places, like I'm an Epcot kid, like that idea of learning and entertainment at the same time is very near and dear to my heart.

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CHRISSY: I'm very excited to wear the Figma sweatshirt that you bought me on your last trip.

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VIRGINIA: I grabbed it for you.

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VIRGINIA: You paid me back.

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CHRISSY: But still, I'm very excited for it.

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VIRGINIA: I know.

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VIRGINIA: I was like, this is the only time in my life I will ever be walking up to a counter to purchase a Figma sweatshirt.

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VIRGINIA: I have a fondness for him, but he's a little bit like stitched to me, like a little too chaotic.

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VIRGINIA: You just made a face.

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VIRGINIA: Are you not a stitched person?

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CHRISSY: I'm not a stitched person.

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CHRISSY: I'm not a stitched person.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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VIRGINIA: Yes.

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CHRISSY: I don't get it.

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VIRGINIA: There's more of us.

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VIRGINIA: People are obsessed with him.

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VIRGINIA: And I'm not a fan of that movie, really, either.

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VIRGINIA: There's, I don't know, there's just something about it that just does not strike a chord with me.

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VIRGINIA: He's too chaotic.

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VIRGINIA: And then the whole situation with Lilo and her sister and like everything they're going through is really traumatic.

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VIRGINIA: And so it's very depressing for me.

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VIRGINIA: And so I don't really like watching that movie.

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VIRGINIA: And I can't relate to that in any way.

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VIRGINIA: I did not have that kind of childhood, but there's just something about it.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: Well, this magical sister trip, is it going to just be the two of you?

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MARIA: Yes.

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MARIA: Yes.

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MARIA: Yes, we have a third member of our Disney Kajano Girl Gang, which is our cousin Katie.

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MARIA: So we did have to give her a shout out.

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MARIA: But Katie has a three year old daughter, Bella, and it wasn't financially in the cards right now for her to come and especially without Bella.

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MARIA: So we are dedicating this trip to Kate and all of the fun we're going to have.

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MARIA: We are going to be sad just a little bit to be missing her.

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VIRGINIA: Oh, I'm sure.

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VIRGINIA: And I'm sure Bella can probably look forward to a little treat when you when you ladies get back.

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MARIA: Oh, 100 percent.

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MARIA: We're her little fairy godmothers.

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VIRGINIA: I was going to say, you're definitely the type that would be spoiling all of the little people you have in your family.

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MARIA: Yep.

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VIRGINIA: When are your trip dates?

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MARIA: First of all, January 18th to 22nd.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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VIRGINIA: January 18th.

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VIRGINIA: So today is January 14th.

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VIRGINIA: So it is coming up.

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VIRGINIA: That's really exciting.

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VIRGINIA: Do you feel ready to leave?

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VIRGINIA: I mean, it's so soon after the holidays.

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MARIA: I am so ready.

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CHRISSY: Maria actually called me last week or on Friday.

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CHRISSY: She called me and she was like very excited to talk about trip things and I was like mentally not there.

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CHRISSY: And so she called me maybe three days later and I had a whole bunch of things to talk about.

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CHRISSY: And she was like, OK, you're finally on my level.

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CHRISSY: I really needed you to be on my level.

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CHRISSY: You just weren't there yet.

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CHRISSY: And it was, you know, I had like, you know, all of that circle back after the holidays circled right in my face.

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CHRISSY: And then once I got over that hump of the first week, it was way better.

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CHRISSY: And I was like, now, now I'm ready.

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CHRISSY: The other thing is that we're heading into the like, I come home from this trip and then head into two or three weeks of work travel.

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CHRISSY: So I'm very excited to have that, like, Zen, like, it's not going to be a super relaxing trip, but it will be in certain ways.

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CHRISSY: So I'm excited to have that before I go into all of this, like, crazy work travel where I have to be on all the time.

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CHRISSY: Maria, I don't have to be on in front of Maria.

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CHRISSY: And I appreciate that.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: And even though a Disney trip is not like it, well, it can be relaxing.

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VIRGINIA: But a lot of times it's not because you're running around doing everything you want to do.

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VIRGINIA: There's a difference in running around and doing everything that you want to do.

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VIRGINIA: And it's things that you're choosing to do, things that you love and bring you joy, as opposed to a work trip where you're obligated to be at certain places at certain times.

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VIRGINIA: And like you said, you're on.

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VIRGINIA: And then you go back to a hotel room, presumably, you know, spending most of the evening by yourself in this foreign place or wherever you are.

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VIRGINIA: It's not nearly as much fun.

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CHRISSY: It's a good lead in.

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CHRISSY: And, you know, we we used to do this trip in the fall.

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CHRISSY: I love I think we both love Disney decorated for autumn holidays.

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CHRISSY: And one year we ended up going in January and we just realized that the temperature difference and the crowd difference that made it really worth it.

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CHRISSY: It used to not be practical for me to do a trip in January because of the way my contracts were structured at work.

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CHRISSY: Now that it is, it just it actually feels like a real getaway because it's freezing here and it's cool in Florida, but it's not freezing.

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VIRGINIA: Right.

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VIRGINIA: And it's the kind of weather where you you can get warmth during the day and wear short sleeves and stuff like that.

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VIRGINIA: And then at night, maybe you just throw on a figment hoodie and you're exactly there be lots of layers.

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VIRGINIA: All right.

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

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MARIA: We will be staying at Pop Century.

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MARIA: Unfortunately, the Skyliner is under refurbishment.

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MARIA: So not the best time to be staying at Pop, but the price was right.

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MARIA: And I think there's a possibility that I think we're going to be there towards like the end of the refurbishment.

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MARIA: So we may get some some magic and be able to ride the Skyliner towards the end of the trip.

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MARIA: I hope.

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VIRGINIA: Well, yeah, and I think that even without Skyliner, Pop Century is just a fantastic resort.

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VIRGINIA: You have such easy access to walk over to Art of the Animation and enjoy that if you want.

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VIRGINIA: And it's, you know, I think it's a pretty convenient location as far as value resorts are concerned.

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MARIA: And we stayed there last January, right, Chris?

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MARIA: Yes, we did.

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VIRGINIA: What kind of tickets do each of you have?

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MARIA: We both have three-day park hopper tickets.

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VIRGINIA: All right, three-day park hopper tickets.

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VIRGINIA: So you're there the 18th through the 22nd.

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VIRGINIA: When you arrive on the 18th, what time is your flight going to get there?

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VIRGINIA: Will you have a lot of the day to enjoy?

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MARIA: So, yes, I arrive at 1.30 and Chrissy arrives at 12.30.

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MARIA: So she'll have to wait for me a little bit at MCO and hang out.

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MARIA: And then we'll whisk ourselves over to Pop Century.

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VIRGINIA: Are you going to do like an Uber?

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MARIA: Yeah, I think so.

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CHRISSY: Usually we do.

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CHRISSY: A lot of times we'll check the the Mears transportation service and kind of see like if there's nobody there and it's clear you're going to have to wait for a while, we'll hop in an Uber.

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CHRISSY: We'll also do a price check.

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CHRISSY: If the Uber is really surge priced, then we'll wait because we don't have to get to a park or a party or anything that night.

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CHRISSY: But it kind of just depends on what the wait is looking like.

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CHRISSY: I don't mind if there's a bunch of people there and you're like, OK, I'm going to get on a van pretty soon.

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CHRISSY: But if you get over there and there's not a soul in sight, get me in a Lyft.

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CHRISSY: It's still worth it.

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CHRISSY: For two people, it's still worth it, especially when you're landing midday.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, and I think a lot of people don't maybe realize that you can walk up to mirrors and see if they have room and if you're able to get on a bus.

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VIRGINIA: You don't necessarily have to book in advance.

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VIRGINIA: So you have that flexibility to choose what you want to do.

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CHRISSY: Right.

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CHRISSY: Our flights were actually much closer together.

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CHRISSY: And then Frontier moved my entire flight up, I think, 45 minutes.

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CHRISSY: But I will bring a book or maybe have a crafty project.

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CHRISSY: I do a lot of knitting.

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CHRISSY: I might have knitting in my bag.

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CHRISSY: I'll entertain myself.

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CHRISSY: But also, I'm just going to be really excited.

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CHRISSY: And I'll probably be sitting outside her gate like this.

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CHRISSY: I've been known to do that.

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CHRISSY: Where's my sister?

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CHRISSY: Where's my sister?

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VIRGINIA: Maria, what airline are you flying?

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MARIA: I'm flying United out of Newark.

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CHRISSY: Yeah, my bags were definitely more expensive than my seat.

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CHRISSY: But getting to Orlando for under $200 is not a bad thing, my friend.

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CHRISSY: For a two-hour flight, I can handle a front-tier seat.

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VIRGINIA: Yeah, no.

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VIRGINIA: When I went in December, the tipping point for me was that the round trip was only $200.

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VIRGINIA: So I was like, yeah.

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VIRGINIA: But with the flights, do you know what gate each of you will be coming into?

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VIRGINIA: Is it B?

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VIRGINIA: I don't know.

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CHRISSY: I will not be.

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VIRGINIA: That's what I'm asking.

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MARIA: It's not C, right?

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MARIA: It's not C.

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CHRISSY: It will not be in the new terminal.

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CHRISSY: It will not be in the new terminal now, sadly.

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VIRGINIA: Okay.

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VIRGINIA: So it will be pretty easy for you two to connect once you're there.

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VIRGINIA: I think so, yeah.

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VIRGINIA: Heading straight to the resort, I imagine, getting checked in, do you have any kind of preference for what section of Pop Century you're going to be in?

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MARIA: We have a preferred room, and we have a subscription to touring plans, so we were able to submit a room request for, I think, a room in the 50s building, like on the second floor, because I don't particularly love being on the first floor, but the second floor is good.

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MARIA: That way, at least, I feel like I don't have to go to the elevator, like one floor steps, like even two floors, I probably would be okay walking.

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MARIA: That's where we stayed last January, and it was nice because it was close to the front, it was close to the buses, it wasn't a super far walk to go back over to the Skyliner.

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MARIA: So that's, hopefully, we get our room that we requested.

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CHRISSY: And let's be honest, I'm an emergency manager, I'm way more comfortable being on the second floor.

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CHRISSY: It's like, easy exit.

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CHRISSY: No one will steal us because we're not on the first floor.

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CHRISSY: So that's the, you know, everybody has their rational fears.

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CHRISSY: I'm a single woman living alone, sleeping on the first floor.

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CHRISSY: Buildings is not something I do ever in life.

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CHRISSY: So I'm very happy with that.

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CHRISSY: And honestly, it was nice in the morning.

00:14:13.450 --> 00:14:16.990
CHRISSY: I felt like walking down the steps to get us to stretch our legs a little bit more.

00:14:17.430 --> 00:14:19.070
CHRISSY: But it was really nice at the end of the day.

00:14:19.090 --> 00:14:23.530
CHRISSY: I didn't feel like I was hiking all the way back to my room when you're like ready to drop.

00:14:24.230 --> 00:14:24.630
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:14:24.870 --> 00:14:25.110
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:14:25.490 --> 00:14:30.830
VIRGINIA: I don't really like sleeping on the first floor either, regardless of whether I'm there by myself or I'm there with my family.

00:14:30.870 --> 00:14:33.210
VIRGINIA: I'm just not a first floor kind of person.

00:14:33.590 --> 00:14:59.530
VIRGINIA: And when you're talking a value resort where the room's open to the outside and it's hard concrete outside your door, the sound of everyone walking past with their own suitcases or walking past just to go to the food court to get foods, like families talking at full volume, not really thinking about like, oh, there might be people who still haven't gotten up yet because it's 630 in the morning.

00:15:00.150 --> 00:15:01.150
VIRGINIA: That sort of thing.

00:15:01.970 --> 00:15:04.130
VIRGINIA: So it's nice to be up just even one level.

00:15:04.570 --> 00:15:04.870
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:15:05.290 --> 00:15:12.890
CHRISSY: The only time we didn't was when we stayed at Animal Kingdom Lodge and I said we wanted a room near the lobby and we were like five rooms in on the first floor.

00:15:12.910 --> 00:15:14.990
CHRISSY: That was the only time I felt comfortable with it.

00:15:15.010 --> 00:15:15.950
CHRISSY: And that room was awesome.

00:15:17.130 --> 00:15:22.590
VIRGINIA: Yeah, but at Animal Kingdom Lodge, you don't have that many people going off into the room hall.

00:15:23.130 --> 00:15:28.030
VIRGINIA: If they're not staying there, then they're kind of sticking to the middle section.

00:15:28.030 --> 00:15:30.690
VIRGINIA: And if they are staying there, the hallways are carpeted.

00:15:32.650 --> 00:15:36.450
VIRGINIA: After you get checked in, you don't have a park day this day, correct?

00:15:38.150 --> 00:15:42.210
VIRGINIA: Okay, so what kind of fun are you going to get into on Thursday the 18th?

00:15:42.810 --> 00:15:46.470
CHRISSY: I have been known to immediately put on a bathing suit and jump in a pool.

00:15:46.510 --> 00:15:51.810
CHRISSY: I don't know that it will be warm enough for that, but that's often my immediate MO.

00:15:52.730 --> 00:15:55.890
CHRISSY: Maria, not so much, but I'm like, get me in the water.

00:15:55.910 --> 00:15:56.710
CHRISSY: This is amazing.

00:15:56.730 --> 00:15:57.610
CHRISSY: It's not cold here.

00:15:58.370 --> 00:16:03.290
CHRISSY: But I don't really think that's going to be practical this time, and Maria is definitely looking at me like you're a crazy person.

00:16:03.310 --> 00:16:04.790
CHRISSY: It might only be 65 degrees.

00:16:05.390 --> 00:16:06.730
VIRGINIA: Well, have you looked at the weather yet?

00:16:07.070 --> 00:16:08.390
CHRISSY: So this is the other fun thing.

00:16:09.550 --> 00:16:17.510
CHRISSY: Maria and I have found her weather forecast and the weather forecast on my phone are like 10 degrees different.

00:16:18.190 --> 00:16:19.730
CHRISSY: So we're still trying to figure out what's real.

00:16:19.790 --> 00:16:21.850
CHRISSY: I'm inclined to believe Maria's and not mine.

00:16:21.870 --> 00:16:22.870
CHRISSY: Maybe I'm just being optimistic.

00:16:23.770 --> 00:16:26.910
CHRISSY: But we texted each other screenshots of the weather report.

00:16:27.370 --> 00:16:30.010
CHRISSY: And yeah, like a solid 7 to 10 degree difference.

00:16:30.030 --> 00:16:31.830
CHRISSY: And I was like, this, how is this possible?

00:16:32.270 --> 00:16:35.150
CHRISSY: So I'm going to go with even at Maria's forecast.

00:16:35.170 --> 00:16:37.330
CHRISSY: It probably won't be warm enough for me to jump in a pool.

00:16:37.350 --> 00:16:39.410
MARIA: But mine's different today from the other day.

00:16:39.430 --> 00:16:43.230
MARIA: Or we do it like just like a polar plunge and you just jump in.

00:16:43.590 --> 00:16:48.730
VIRGINIA: I'm looking right now at the apple weather and the highest I see is 73 for the entire time.

00:16:48.750 --> 00:16:50.010
CHRISSY: I'm probably not going to go jump in a pool.

00:16:50.090 --> 00:16:51.090
CHRISSY: I'm bringing a bathing suit.

00:16:51.470 --> 00:16:52.370
CHRISSY: I might get crazy.

00:16:52.730 --> 00:16:54.410
VIRGINIA: We'll bring a bathing suit just in case.

00:16:54.510 --> 00:16:57.110
VIRGINIA: But maybe go to the pool bar.

00:16:57.590 --> 00:17:00.110
CHRISSY: Maria, what is the plan for the rest of Thursday?

00:17:00.610 --> 00:17:06.510
MARIA: So Thursday we do have a dinner reservation at Summer House on the Lake at Disney Springs.

00:17:07.070 --> 00:17:09.650
MARIA: I was excited to get that because the...

00:17:10.550 --> 00:17:15.250
MARIA: Yes, because it's new and I needed to be like fancy, influencer-y.

00:17:16.710 --> 00:17:19.570
MARIA: And apparently they have a cookie bar that looks like...

00:17:20.070 --> 00:17:24.030
MARIA: not like a bar, like a cookie bar, it's like a bar that has like all these different cookies.

00:17:24.050 --> 00:17:25.950
MARIA: Yeah, you gotta tell me that part.

00:17:26.110 --> 00:17:27.710
MARIA: I'm immediately more excited.

00:17:27.730 --> 00:17:33.450
MARIA: I mean, we're still going to Gideon's, but we can get cookies there as well.

00:17:34.210 --> 00:17:39.730
MARIA: I was also thinking of possibly suggesting going over to one or both of the character warehouse outlets.

00:17:40.790 --> 00:17:41.430
CHRISSY: I see you.

00:17:41.450 --> 00:17:42.410
CHRISSY: I like that plan.

00:17:42.430 --> 00:17:48.010
MARIA: Yeah, because then I figure we could do that and then if there's anything we like, we could buy it there and then not.

00:17:48.030 --> 00:17:49.670
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:17:49.690 --> 00:17:59.490
VIRGINIA: No, I love doing that sort of closer to the beginning of a trip for that very reason because if you find things you love there at reduced prices, then you're less likely to buy the full price stuff in the park.

00:17:59.850 --> 00:18:02.050
VIRGINIA: Sometimes it doesn't stop me, but whatever.

00:18:02.630 --> 00:18:08.470
VIRGINIA: Have you ever been to the International Drive character warehouse location?

00:18:08.490 --> 00:18:09.450
VIRGINIA: Because I have not.

00:18:09.470 --> 00:18:10.350
MARIA: I think we have.

00:18:10.370 --> 00:18:13.350
MARIA: So I've been to one multiple times.

00:18:13.370 --> 00:18:14.570
MARIA: I think it's the one on I Drive.

00:18:15.070 --> 00:18:19.170
VIRGINIA: You've probably been to the one at Vineland, which is the one closest to it.

00:18:19.190 --> 00:18:20.390
MARIA: Oh, yes, I have been to that one.

00:18:20.410 --> 00:18:20.750
MARIA: You're right.

00:18:21.050 --> 00:18:22.110
MARIA: The one is by the church.

00:18:22.330 --> 00:18:23.230
VIRGINIA: Yes, the church.

00:18:23.230 --> 00:18:26.450
VIRGINIA: And then it's like an outlet mall and the food court is where...

00:18:26.470 --> 00:18:26.850
MARIA: Yeah, okay.

00:18:26.870 --> 00:18:27.610
MARIA: Then I've been to that one.

00:18:27.930 --> 00:18:29.810
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I've never been to the one that's farther away.

00:18:29.830 --> 00:18:31.830
VIRGINIA: And I had some guests recently.

00:18:31.850 --> 00:18:35.810
VIRGINIA: I want to say it was the two ladies from Parents on Disney.

00:18:36.430 --> 00:18:43.130
VIRGINIA: And they ended up going over to that location just to check out something different because they hadn't before.

00:18:43.330 --> 00:18:44.570
VIRGINIA: They didn't like it as much.

00:18:44.570 --> 00:18:49.790
VIRGINIA: So they ended up Ubering, I think, from there over to the one that we've been to a million times.

00:18:49.810 --> 00:18:50.230
MARIA: Interesting.

00:18:51.590 --> 00:18:52.470
CHRISSY: That makes me feel better.

00:18:52.670 --> 00:18:54.290
CHRISSY: The closer one is maybe a little bit better.

00:18:54.350 --> 00:18:54.710
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:18:54.730 --> 00:18:56.190
VIRGINIA: It's farther away anyway.

00:18:56.250 --> 00:18:57.310
VIRGINIA: So I...

00:18:57.950 --> 00:19:02.270
VIRGINIA: And if you're going to be at Disney Springs, the Vineland location is close to Disney Springs.

00:19:02.430 --> 00:19:12.430
VIRGINIA: So if you want to have convenience and not be wasting time in Ubers and stuff, go to Vineland, check it out, and then go to Disney Springs.

00:19:12.450 --> 00:19:15.290
MARIA: They said we have a 715 dinner reservation.

00:19:15.710 --> 00:19:19.030
CHRISSY: And this time we won't have to go to Sephora to buy me mascara because I left it at home.

00:19:19.050 --> 00:19:20.070
MARIA: You do better, Matt.

00:19:20.450 --> 00:19:21.850
VIRGINIA: No, don't let that happen.

00:19:22.450 --> 00:19:27.590
VIRGINIA: You do not want to waste vacation money on fancy mascara that you already own at home.

00:19:27.870 --> 00:19:30.790
CHRISSY: I bought a travel size and I still use it, so I feel like that's okay.

00:19:30.810 --> 00:19:32.530
CHRISSY: But yes, we're not going to forget those things.

00:19:33.010 --> 00:19:34.890
CHRISSY: Literally, I was searching through.

00:19:34.910 --> 00:19:39.310
CHRISSY: I was like, I know Maria texted me a photo of her Disney packing list.

00:19:39.870 --> 00:19:44.530
CHRISSY: And so I was going through all the photos in our text chain to find the master Disney packing list.

00:19:44.950 --> 00:19:56.530
CHRISSY: And actually the one thing for me to do today, the one thing on my to-do list for today was take that from a photo, from a text message from two years ago, and actually write it down for myself so that I have a master Disney packing list.

00:19:56.890 --> 00:19:58.950
CHRISSY: But Maria is better at that stuff than I am.

00:19:59.310 --> 00:20:03.030
VIRGINIA: I'm going to suggest throw it in a Google doc that you share as a template.

00:20:03.430 --> 00:20:04.050
CHRISSY: Oh, smart.

00:20:04.150 --> 00:20:05.990
VIRGINIA: That's what I would do.

00:20:06.810 --> 00:20:14.430
VIRGINIA: Well, Summer Place on the Lake, you're excited about the cookie bar, but what else are you looking forward to there, Maria?

00:20:14.450 --> 00:20:26.430
VIRGINIA: I imagine that you have scoured the menu because for listeners who did not listen to Maria's episode in October, she does have some specific dietary needs, and I'm not sure, Chrissy, if you do as well.

00:20:26.730 --> 00:20:27.230
CHRISSY: I do.

00:20:27.250 --> 00:20:28.950
CHRISSY: I have Crohn's disease.

00:20:28.970 --> 00:20:34.930
CHRISSY: So I'm a little bit more friendly with dairy than Maria is, but still have some things.

00:20:35.370 --> 00:20:40.990
CHRISSY: Like, I'm not the kind of person that can walk into a restaurant without having studied the menu to make sure I can eat there in the past.

00:20:41.010 --> 00:20:50.270
CHRISSY: And I remember that when we made the reservation, we looked at the menu and we were like, OK, there's enough options that didn't have cheese in them, and I felt like it was a good thing.

00:20:50.550 --> 00:20:52.470
CHRISSY: There was enough things that I felt like I could eat.

00:20:52.770 --> 00:20:57.690
CHRISSY: But I did that when we made the reservation and haven't looked at it since.

00:20:58.670 --> 00:20:59.790
CHRISSY: Hence me at my surprise.

00:20:59.810 --> 00:21:02.710
MARIA: No recollection of what I remember looking at the menu.

00:21:02.730 --> 00:21:08.230
MARIA: I remember thinking, oh, there's enough stuff here that I could eat or could ask for cheese to be removed from.

00:21:08.690 --> 00:21:13.350
MARIA: But I'll be darned if I remember what I saw that looked good.

00:21:15.070 --> 00:21:16.570
VIRGINIA: As long as you have enough choices.

00:21:16.870 --> 00:21:17.550
MARIA: Yeah, I think so.

00:21:17.730 --> 00:21:19.730
MARIA: That'll be my plan for the afternoon.

00:21:20.450 --> 00:21:27.830
VIRGINIA: I like to look at menus in advance purely because I get overwhelmed by the number of choices sometimes, and it's like my eyes cannot focus.

00:21:27.830 --> 00:21:35.110
VIRGINIA: I call it menu ADD, where my eyes cannot focus on any one thing, and then it's like I'm not reading anything, and then I have to force myself.

00:21:35.130 --> 00:21:39.730
VIRGINIA: I'm like, you're going to look at this one section and you're going to read it from top to bottom, like one after the other.

00:21:39.930 --> 00:21:47.110
VIRGINIA: But if I look at it in advance, I don't get that as much because I've already pre-identified a couple of things that I'm choosing between.

00:21:47.790 --> 00:21:48.050
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:21:48.970 --> 00:21:53.990
VIRGINIA: Anything else at Disney Springs that you're excited to check out while you're there?

00:21:54.510 --> 00:21:55.270
VIRGINIA: Besides Gideon's.

00:21:56.370 --> 00:21:57.590
MARIA: See where the wind may take us.

00:21:58.210 --> 00:21:59.210
CHRISSY: Not particularly.

00:21:59.230 --> 00:22:02.310
CHRISSY: I love people watching.

00:22:02.330 --> 00:22:07.470
CHRISSY: So I'm just there to like sit there and gander at all of the things that are currently happening.

00:22:07.490 --> 00:22:08.310
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:22:08.630 --> 00:22:08.950
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:22:09.450 --> 00:22:14.070
VIRGINIA: I heard that they have some new Dole Whip flights over at the Dole Whip stand.

00:22:14.090 --> 00:22:15.090
VIRGINIA: So maybe that's something.

00:22:15.110 --> 00:22:16.650
CHRISSY: I had a friend send me them.

00:22:16.670 --> 00:22:17.630
CHRISSY: They looked really good.

00:22:18.070 --> 00:22:21.570
VIRGINIA: Dole Whips are surprisingly dietary friendly for most people.

00:22:22.630 --> 00:22:24.830
VIRGINIA: So it's really and delicious.

00:22:25.090 --> 00:22:25.610
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:22:25.610 --> 00:22:27.590
VIRGINIA: Like the original ones, I think, are vegan.

00:22:27.590 --> 00:22:29.350
VIRGINIA: So pineapple.

00:22:30.670 --> 00:22:31.130
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:22:31.310 --> 00:22:34.810
VIRGINIA: Let's get into Friday, January the 19th.

00:22:34.910 --> 00:22:36.230
VIRGINIA: What is the plan there?

00:22:37.030 --> 00:22:37.410
MARIA: Yes.

00:22:37.930 --> 00:22:40.710
MARIA: We are planning to go to Magic Kingdom.

00:22:40.730 --> 00:22:44.550
MARIA: Now, you know, we're very excited that we didn't have to make park reservations for anything.

00:22:44.850 --> 00:22:55.970
MARIA: However, with our DAS passes, we did have to kind of have an idea of what park we're going to every day so we can pick our our pre-arrival selections.

00:22:57.270 --> 00:22:58.530
MARIA: So we're going to Magic Kingdom.

00:22:59.510 --> 00:23:06.010
MARIA: Our DAS selections are Pirates of the Caribbean at 930 and Peter Pan at 3.

00:23:06.830 --> 00:23:08.350
MARIA: So we're going to do that.

00:23:08.350 --> 00:23:09.910
MARIA: Chrissy has not written Tron yet.

00:23:11.190 --> 00:23:14.770
MARIA: So we're going to get her on Tron, hopefully twice.

00:23:15.610 --> 00:23:22.790
CHRISSY: My priorities for this trip are literally just Tron and Happily Ever After because we haven't seen Happily Ever After since 2019.

00:23:23.510 --> 00:23:24.150
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

00:23:24.650 --> 00:23:26.230
VIRGINIA: I love Happily Ever After.

00:23:26.350 --> 00:23:27.850
VIRGINIA: It makes me cry.

00:23:27.870 --> 00:23:28.410
MARIA: Yeah, me too.

00:23:29.130 --> 00:23:30.190
CHRISSY: Okay, I am not.

00:23:30.210 --> 00:23:31.110
CHRISSY: This is the big thing.

00:23:31.330 --> 00:23:32.470
CHRISSY: I'm not a crier.

00:23:32.610 --> 00:23:36.750
CHRISSY: In fact, sometimes I laugh at Maria because she gets very emotional and excited and I think it's adorable.

00:23:37.610 --> 00:23:40.530
CHRISSY: But even I will get teary at Happily Ever After.

00:23:40.650 --> 00:23:41.930
CHRISSY: It's real.

00:23:42.250 --> 00:23:44.250
CHRISSY: But yeah, I am always...

00:23:44.250 --> 00:23:47.530
CHRISSY: I like to start a Disney trip in Magic Kingdom.

00:23:47.810 --> 00:23:51.030
CHRISSY: I feel like it's old school even if we don't stay there the whole day.

00:23:51.190 --> 00:23:56.610
CHRISSY: But I'm like, I don't necessarily feel like I'm fully immersed in the magic until you get that castle view.

00:23:57.350 --> 00:24:03.070
CHRISSY: So I usually push to start in Magic Kingdom unless there's something else going on that's very specific.

00:24:03.790 --> 00:24:07.830
CHRISSY: So I'm very excited that we are starting the trip there.

00:24:07.950 --> 00:24:18.150
CHRISSY: And I will say that in general, you know, people talk about like, oh man, you need to add like a PhD in Disney to figure out how you're going to plan and what you're going to do.

00:24:19.050 --> 00:24:29.950
CHRISSY: And I will say that having using the Disability Access Service really changed the game in terms of actually making these vacations feel relaxing.

00:24:29.970 --> 00:24:32.710
CHRISSY: There is still a certain amount of pre-planning that we have to do.

00:24:33.410 --> 00:24:42.090
CHRISSY: But DAS takes a lot of the guesswork and stress at a feeling like, oh my gosh, am I going to be able to get to do the things that I want to do?

00:24:42.110 --> 00:24:53.330
CHRISSY: So, I'm excited to have that and using that in combination with, I'm guessing we'll probably do individual lightning lanes for Tron, just because, like I said, I haven't ridden it and I really want to and I don't know that I want to.

00:24:53.830 --> 00:25:02.130
CHRISSY: We'll probably try for the virtual queue as well, but I, that's the one thing that I was like, I'm willing to pay for that because I don't have to pay for GD+.

00:25:02.650 --> 00:25:03.010
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:25:03.310 --> 00:25:05.730
VIRGINIA: Well, I have a question in relation to DAS.

00:25:05.950 --> 00:25:11.730
VIRGINIA: So, if you do a virtual queue for Tron, the virtual queue is very different than the individual lightning lane.

00:25:11.750 --> 00:25:13.930
VIRGINIA: Like, you're waiting as long as it takes.

00:25:13.990 --> 00:25:20.910
VIRGINIA: So, if you are someone who has DAS, who gets a virtual queue boarding group, how does that work?

00:25:20.950 --> 00:25:28.590
VIRGINIA: Because sometimes, you know, if the line's going to be long, like, you have the service that you need to use, will they let you kind of combine it?

00:25:30.350 --> 00:25:42.890
CHRISSY: So, the way the disability access selections work, it's you can enter no earlier than the stated time, but you can show up an hour later and it's still okay.

00:25:43.270 --> 00:26:02.130
CHRISSY: So, we've done things like, for example, put ourselves virtually in line for Rise of the Resistance and then gone and eaten lunch and watched two shows and say my return time was 1.30 and we didn't get there until 2 or 2.30, that's okay because it's just that you can't come before the allotted time.

00:26:02.230 --> 00:26:07.650
VIRGINIA: Well, I want to pause you right there because Tron, they are not doing that with Tron.

00:26:08.550 --> 00:26:10.530
VIRGINIA: They are being much more strict about it.

00:26:10.990 --> 00:26:23.790
CHRISSY: Yes, I meant like you wouldn't necessarily miss, so if you're waiting in line for Tron, but you were also in line for another attraction, you wouldn't necessarily have to miss your slot for the other attraction.

00:26:23.810 --> 00:26:47.370
VIRGINIA: Take all the other attractions aside, I just want to ask, if you have a boarding group for Tron, as somebody who needs the DAS pass, if when you walk up, it's like, oh, this is going to be an hour wait with my virtual queue standing in this Tron line, do they do anything for you saying like the reason you have DAS is it's harder for you to wait in lines because of your disability?

00:26:48.850 --> 00:26:50.710
CHRISSY: Yeah, they don't really care.

00:26:50.730 --> 00:26:56.610
CHRISSY: I don't know how the queue for Tron looks, because for both of us, it's really about having access to a restroom and water.

00:26:57.410 --> 00:27:07.270
CHRISSY: So I don't actually know how the queue for Tron is structured, but that's part of the reason why I'm like, I think it's probably worth it to just pay for the individual lightning lane.

00:27:08.070 --> 00:27:12.750
CHRISSY: Although waiting in an hour long line when the weather is not disastrous isn't awful.

00:27:14.350 --> 00:27:22.430
CHRISSY: But yeah, for us, it would have to be carefully managed around not needing, around not having access to the DAS service.

00:27:22.450 --> 00:27:23.110
VIRGINIA: Let's put it that way.

00:27:23.650 --> 00:27:27.950
VIRGINIA: I feel like because Virtual Queue is free, maybe that's like a chance to take.

00:27:27.970 --> 00:27:38.690
VIRGINIA: Like you get it, you try, and if it seems like it's taking too long or whatever, and I bet you could ask, you know, once you check into your Virtual Queue, like how long is this wait really going to be?

00:27:39.450 --> 00:27:46.030
VIRGINIA: There's also just, Maria will know this, but there's a restroom like at the Tron Queue.

00:27:46.430 --> 00:27:50.210
VIRGINIA: So if you do need one, you do not have to go very far to get to it.

00:27:50.590 --> 00:27:51.950
VIRGINIA: And it's nice too.

00:27:52.130 --> 00:27:57.230
MARIA: Yeah, so I think that my kind of thinking is we'll try for a virtual queue.

00:27:57.250 --> 00:27:58.290
MARIA: We'll see what time we get.

00:27:58.310 --> 00:28:02.470
MARIA: We'll see when it's called and how we're feeling and try it.

00:28:02.490 --> 00:28:06.550
MARIA: If we have to get out of line, then we have to get out of line.

00:28:07.070 --> 00:28:08.610
MARIA: It's not the end of the world.

00:28:09.550 --> 00:28:20.170
MARIA: But I think that's why having the paid one that is you go through the line much quicker, I'm okay with paying for it because it's that good.

00:28:21.570 --> 00:28:27.850
CHRISSY: Yes, part of being a Disney childless millennial means I can pay to get on the nicest ride.

00:28:27.870 --> 00:28:33.850
CHRISSY: And I understand and respect that that is fully a privilege that I have that many people and families do not have.

00:28:34.290 --> 00:28:35.070
CHRISSY: But you know what?

00:28:35.090 --> 00:28:36.650
CHRISSY: Y'all get better tax breaks than I do.

00:28:36.670 --> 00:28:38.030
CHRISSY: So I'm going to take the wins where I can.

00:28:41.490 --> 00:28:42.170
VIRGINIA: I love it.

00:28:42.310 --> 00:28:42.890
VIRGINIA: I love it.

00:28:44.870 --> 00:28:45.390
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:28:45.890 --> 00:28:51.530
VIRGINIA: So you said you may or you may not stay at Magic Kingdom the whole day.

00:28:51.570 --> 00:28:53.570
VIRGINIA: Your Peter Pan is not until three.

00:28:54.170 --> 00:28:55.930
VIRGINIA: And you want to do Happily Ever After.

00:28:56.730 --> 00:29:06.850
VIRGINIA: And so if that's going to happen, would you anticipate going over to a different part for part of the day, taking a break in the afternoon at some point?

00:29:07.170 --> 00:29:14.790
MARIA: Well, so I decided, I don't know, I was looking at reservations the other day and there was one at Kona Cafe at 5 o'clock.

00:29:15.290 --> 00:29:20.750
MARIA: And I was like, let me grab it and we'll see.

00:29:20.770 --> 00:29:30.530
MARIA: Because I was figuring we could either, we could do Peter Pan right at 3, mosey our way out, get on a boat, go over to Poly, have dinner, maybe from there even go to Epcot and come back.

00:29:30.550 --> 00:29:33.310
MARIA: It depends on what time Happily Ever After is going to be.

00:29:33.330 --> 00:29:46.450
MARIA: Or we might just abandon Kona, go over to Epcot, do some food booths that are in the front of a future world area and then go back over for Happily Ever After.

00:29:46.690 --> 00:29:49.390
MARIA: Because I need to see Happily Ever After.

00:29:52.350 --> 00:29:54.110
VIRGINIA: Have you eaten at Kona before?

00:29:55.170 --> 00:29:56.530
MARIA: For breakfast and dinner, I think.

00:29:56.550 --> 00:29:57.190
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:29:57.210 --> 00:29:59.710
CHRISSY: I was going to say, have we gone for dinner?

00:30:00.890 --> 00:30:02.290
MARIA: Yes, breakfast and dinner.

00:30:02.310 --> 00:30:02.750
MARIA: We've been there.

00:30:03.810 --> 00:30:05.110
MARIA: I just love the Polynesian.

00:30:05.410 --> 00:30:06.030
VIRGINIA: I do too.

00:30:06.210 --> 00:30:06.910
VIRGINIA: I really do.

00:30:06.970 --> 00:30:07.490
VIRGINIA: I really do.

00:30:09.510 --> 00:30:14.850
VIRGINIA: I have no idea what time Happily Ever After is at, but I'm guessing probably like 8 o'clock or something.

00:30:16.050 --> 00:30:16.970
CHRISSY: Yeah, if it's early.

00:30:16.990 --> 00:30:18.670
MARIA: And it's open until 11.

00:30:19.590 --> 00:30:28.570
CHRISSY: As I get older, the January trip time also makes me happy because since the parks all tend to close a little bit earlier, I don't feel like I have that pressure to stay out really late.

00:30:28.850 --> 00:30:39.370
CHRISSY: My friends and my family know that I have what they call my sleepy hour that once you hit 11 o'clock, I am going to literally, I have done this, be falling asleep on my feet.

00:30:39.790 --> 00:30:42.690
CHRISSY: But if you can get me through to midnight, I'm good until like 3 o'clock in the morning.

00:30:42.710 --> 00:30:47.490
CHRISSY: So, but I don't feel like I have that pressure in January when the parks all naturally close.

00:30:47.510 --> 00:30:49.630
MARIA: A Magic Kingdom is open until 11 o'clock that night.

00:30:52.350 --> 00:30:53.290
CHRISSY: Well, that's okay.

00:30:53.310 --> 00:30:55.530
CHRISSY: I can take a nap on the bus back to the resort.

00:30:55.630 --> 00:30:56.030
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:30:56.210 --> 00:31:07.770
VIRGINIA: And the good thing about that is when the park is open past Happily Ever After, a lot of the families that are there head on off to their resort and then it is nice and empty.

00:31:08.190 --> 00:31:08.490
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:31:08.950 --> 00:31:09.430
CHRISSY: That's my goal.

00:31:09.450 --> 00:31:10.910
CHRISSY: I'll have a coffee at dinner.

00:31:10.930 --> 00:31:11.390
MARIA: It'll be fine.

00:31:11.410 --> 00:31:17.530
MARIA: Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I will cancel that phone of reservation and we'll go over to Epcot and then come back because at least we could take the monorail.

00:31:18.830 --> 00:31:19.250
MARIA: We'll see.

00:31:19.850 --> 00:31:20.170
CHRISSY: True.

00:31:21.690 --> 00:31:22.130
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:31:22.150 --> 00:31:24.170
VIRGINIA: So may cancel and go to Epcot.

00:31:24.510 --> 00:31:24.790
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:31:25.070 --> 00:31:25.850
VIRGINIA: We will see.

00:31:26.010 --> 00:31:26.370
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:31:26.550 --> 00:31:28.330
VIRGINIA: And it is Festival of the Arts right now.

00:31:28.610 --> 00:31:31.850
VIRGINIA: So it is very exciting.

00:31:31.950 --> 00:31:36.030
VIRGINIA: I personally, it's my favorite festival of all.

00:31:36.050 --> 00:31:36.790
CHRISSY: Oh, really?

00:31:36.930 --> 00:31:37.330
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

00:31:37.550 --> 00:31:37.830
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:31:38.250 --> 00:31:41.410
VIRGINIA: Because I think that the I love the art.

00:31:41.430 --> 00:31:42.390
VIRGINIA: I love browsing.

00:31:42.410 --> 00:31:47.250
VIRGINIA: I never buy anything because living in New York City, I have a limited amount of wall space.

00:31:47.310 --> 00:31:51.430
VIRGINIA: And all of the wall space I have is covered in things that I want to be there.

00:31:52.590 --> 00:31:59.550
VIRGINIA: So if I'm purchasing anything, it's like for, you know, when we move eventually, which won't happen until at least Alex is out of high school.

00:31:59.770 --> 00:32:04.590
VIRGINIA: I love the like the chalk drawings on the pavement.

00:32:04.610 --> 00:32:05.570
VIRGINIA: I love the murals.

00:32:05.570 --> 00:32:08.170
VIRGINIA: I love getting to participate in the paint by number.

00:32:08.190 --> 00:32:10.990
VIRGINIA: I love the food.

00:32:11.010 --> 00:32:12.810
VIRGINIA: I love the performance, like everything about it.

00:32:12.830 --> 00:32:20.630
VIRGINIA: And having been now to food and wine that I went to for Labor Day weekend, that was my first time ever going to food and wine.

00:32:21.610 --> 00:32:24.550
VIRGINIA: I was not really impressed with the selection of food.

00:32:24.850 --> 00:32:29.070
VIRGINIA: And when I go to Festival of the Arts, I love so many things food wise.

00:32:29.350 --> 00:32:31.390
VIRGINIA: So that's why it's my favorite.

00:32:32.430 --> 00:32:39.230
CHRISSY: Yeah, I like that you do have the opportunity to see and experience things that are Disney related.

00:32:39.250 --> 00:32:42.150
CHRISSY: But, you know, at the end of the day, all those artists are small businesses.

00:32:42.170 --> 00:32:46.430
CHRISSY: So it's kind of cool to get to see all the things and just how creative people are.

00:32:46.610 --> 00:32:47.490
VIRGINIA: Yeah, yeah.

00:32:47.510 --> 00:32:47.890
CHRISSY: That part.

00:32:48.930 --> 00:32:51.190
VIRGINIA: Sometimes the artist, the actual artist is there.

00:32:51.430 --> 00:33:01.090
VIRGINIA: So especially if it's like an artist, a Disney artist that you follow and enjoy their work, it's kind of cool to just happen upon them sitting there at their art booth.

00:33:01.510 --> 00:33:01.790
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:33:02.190 --> 00:33:09.930
CHRISSY: I mean, and did Maria send me the entire set of menus and was like, start looking like Maria will have her first snack itinerary.

00:33:10.030 --> 00:33:10.950
CHRISSY: Maria, is it planned yet?

00:33:11.450 --> 00:33:11.970
MARIA: I did.

00:33:11.990 --> 00:33:16.690
MARIA: You know how I printed out the one for the food and wine in the fall?

00:33:16.830 --> 00:33:18.370
MARIA: Yeah, I did it again in color.

00:33:18.390 --> 00:33:18.910
CHRISSY: Sorry to work.

00:33:19.230 --> 00:33:20.490
MARIA: It's a lot of purple.

00:33:21.810 --> 00:33:23.030
MARIA: And I have things highlighted.

00:33:23.050 --> 00:33:25.550
MARIA: So I have things highlighted that I definitely want to eat.

00:33:25.590 --> 00:33:31.050
MARIA: I have things that are underlined that I think I could try if I got cheese removed, that I'm very excited about.

00:33:31.130 --> 00:33:37.890
VIRGINIA: Maria, you owe your work at least 50 cents in color ink with all this kind of printing you're doing.

00:33:38.150 --> 00:33:40.410
MARIA: They get enough out of me for the 50 cents.

00:33:40.470 --> 00:33:41.210
MARIA: I think they're good.

00:33:41.230 --> 00:33:42.070
MARIA: We'll call it even.

00:33:42.370 --> 00:33:42.870
VIRGINIA: I'm sure.

00:33:43.330 --> 00:33:51.270
VIRGINIA: So I always recommend to people, I've recommended a bazillion times, but there is an app called Food and Wine.

00:33:51.570 --> 00:33:55.750
VIRGINIA: It's called Food and Wine, but every festival they adjust the menus within the app.

00:33:56.330 --> 00:34:00.330
VIRGINIA: So Chrissy, you might enjoy that if you have not seen it before.

00:34:01.370 --> 00:34:07.470
VIRGINIA: And you can mark within the app the things that you're interested in and then look at the map of Epcot and filter it.

00:34:07.490 --> 00:34:09.710
VIRGINIA: So it only shows you the things that you are interested in.

00:34:10.150 --> 00:34:13.630
VIRGINIA: So then as you walk around, you know the places you actually need to stop.

00:34:14.450 --> 00:34:19.450
MARIA: Yes, I wanted to get the full menu because I feel like that shows a little bit more of like what's in each item.

00:34:20.070 --> 00:34:23.430
MARIA: Whereas on the app, it just is like something.

00:34:23.450 --> 00:34:25.430
MARIA: So I need to have that was step one.

00:34:25.450 --> 00:34:28.770
MARIA: Step two is putting all that information on to the app so we can use it.

00:34:29.490 --> 00:34:30.350
VIRGINIA: Yeah, yeah.

00:34:30.370 --> 00:34:31.170
CHRISSY: Very intense.

00:34:31.190 --> 00:34:31.510
MARIA: I know.

00:34:31.530 --> 00:34:31.990
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:34:32.150 --> 00:34:32.550
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:34:32.570 --> 00:34:34.290
VIRGINIA: But you've got to plan because there's you know what?

00:34:34.310 --> 00:34:35.490
VIRGINIA: There's so many choices.

00:34:35.510 --> 00:34:40.170
VIRGINIA: And if you leave it to chance just walking around going, what looks good to me?

00:34:40.170 --> 00:34:44.370
VIRGINIA: And there was something halfway around World Showcase that you were the most interested in.

00:34:44.390 --> 00:34:47.210
VIRGINIA: Do you really want to fill up before you get to that point?

00:34:47.670 --> 00:34:49.930
VIRGINIA: No, you have to have a game plan.

00:34:50.450 --> 00:34:52.430
VIRGINIA: So that's what Maria does.

00:34:52.450 --> 00:34:56.110
VIRGINIA: Maria has her game plan and she will have you ready to go.

00:34:56.690 --> 00:34:57.630
MARIA: Don't mess around.

00:34:58.750 --> 00:34:59.390
VIRGINIA: No, you don't.

00:35:01.170 --> 00:35:01.570
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:35:01.650 --> 00:35:03.950
VIRGINIA: Saturday, January 20th.

00:35:04.030 --> 00:35:05.650
VIRGINIA: What park for Saturday?

00:35:05.930 --> 00:35:18.310
MARIA: So Saturday, when I was when I had the interview with the DAS approval, our DAS preselections are Soarin Over California at 3 and Test Track at 4.30.

00:35:19.250 --> 00:35:21.890
MARIA: So we ended up deciding that we're going to go to Animal Kingdom in the morning.

00:35:21.910 --> 00:35:24.810
MARIA: There's only a handful of things we want to do at Animal Kingdom.

00:35:24.830 --> 00:35:29.810
MARIA: And then we'll hop over to Epcot from there for our afternoon DAS and dinner stuff.

00:35:30.050 --> 00:35:30.330
MARIA: Yeah.

00:35:31.010 --> 00:35:36.790
MARIA: And Animal Kingdom opens at 8 that day, which means with early entry, we could get there as early as 7.30.

00:35:36.810 --> 00:35:39.590
MARIA: So like Chrissy's making a face like, I don't know how early we're going to get there.

00:35:41.030 --> 00:35:41.850
CHRISSY: Oh, no, girl.

00:35:42.050 --> 00:35:43.230
CHRISSY: I am an early riser.

00:35:43.370 --> 00:35:46.170
CHRISSY: I go for a walk every morning at 6:30 a.m.

00:35:46.190 --> 00:35:47.490
CHRISSY: So like, we good.

00:35:47.950 --> 00:35:48.830
CHRISSY: That sounds good.

00:35:48.890 --> 00:35:49.210
MARIA: Yeah.

00:35:49.730 --> 00:35:50.750
VIRGINIA: And you can get a ton.

00:35:50.770 --> 00:36:02.550
VIRGINIA: Like you can basically, you know, if you're not interested in seeing every single little thing at Animal Kingdom, you can very much go there and get what you want to get done in the first half of the day, especially if you're focused on ride.

00:36:02.570 --> 00:36:09.090
MARIA: I think between 8 and even noon, I was going to say one, because that's when we used to be able to park out.

00:36:09.110 --> 00:36:20.610
MARIA: But I think like even between 730 and 1230, 12 o'clock, I think that we can get, you know, even if we have to do Everest as a single rider, you know, we saw the Nemo show last time.

00:36:20.630 --> 00:36:22.310
MARIA: I don't necessarily need to see it this time.

00:36:22.330 --> 00:36:22.830
MARIA: I like it.

00:36:22.850 --> 00:36:23.790
MARIA: It's a lovely show.

00:36:25.210 --> 00:36:26.950
MARIA: It doesn't make me cry, which is great.

00:36:28.150 --> 00:36:29.730
VIRGINIA: Are you aiming to do Flight of Passage?

00:36:30.350 --> 00:36:43.230
CHRISSY: A lot of times we'll do like right when the park opens, we'll put ourselves in the DAS line for Flight of Passage and actually head to the river journey or something else.

00:36:43.610 --> 00:36:50.110
CHRISSY: So that again, we're sort of sitting in that virtual line for Flight of Passage rather than because everybody rushes there for rope drop.

00:36:50.130 --> 00:36:52.230
CHRISSY: And I'm not five feet tall.

00:36:52.670 --> 00:36:55.970
CHRISSY: I don't like I and I also childhood trauma.

00:36:56.390 --> 00:37:01.290
CHRISSY: I was once in a crowd situation and I was pushed down a flight of steps and that terrifies me.

00:37:01.850 --> 00:37:07.210
CHRISSY: So like when there's a lot of people that are much taller than me kind of pushing, I'm like, nope, I'm out.

00:37:07.230 --> 00:37:10.190
CHRISSY: So I would rather us do something else.

00:37:10.210 --> 00:37:17.990
CHRISSY: And then normally with DAS, even a couple minutes before the park technically opens, like we'll just keep checking and put ourselves in line as soon as we can.

00:37:18.570 --> 00:37:19.330
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:37:19.550 --> 00:37:28.230
CHRISSY: And the only other thing of Animal Kingdom timing wise is I do want to look and see when Kevin is going to be out because she is a delight.

00:37:31.570 --> 00:37:34.190
CHRISSY: And I would like to get to see her if we can.

00:37:34.210 --> 00:37:36.930
CHRISSY: So I would kind of look around to see what her show times are.

00:37:36.990 --> 00:37:38.850
CHRISSY: Not that it's a show, but her appearance times.

00:37:39.430 --> 00:37:43.610
VIRGINIA: If you can find anything where it says, I've never even tried to look.

00:37:43.630 --> 00:37:46.050
VIRGINIA: It's never even really occurred to me to look for that.

00:37:46.050 --> 00:37:49.590
VIRGINIA: So I would love it if you can find something like that.

00:37:49.610 --> 00:37:52.490
VIRGINIA: Let me know because people always want to know when Kevin's going to be out.

00:37:52.930 --> 00:37:54.890
VIRGINIA: And in my mind, it was like, oh, it's just random.

00:37:54.950 --> 00:37:57.950
VIRGINIA: So I just kind of like happened upon her.

00:37:58.730 --> 00:37:59.450
CHRISSY: It's amazing.

00:37:59.470 --> 00:38:06.570
CHRISSY: Like, we're not big character meet and greet people, but meeting Kevin, I squealed like a small child.

00:38:06.750 --> 00:38:07.830
CHRISSY: I was so happy.

00:38:07.850 --> 00:38:08.430
MARIA: We both did.

00:38:08.450 --> 00:38:09.810
MARIA: We both did.

00:38:09.970 --> 00:38:10.390
MARIA: I was...

00:38:12.430 --> 00:38:13.110
VIRGINIA: Oh, my God.

00:38:13.210 --> 00:38:13.830
VIRGINIA: Listeners.

00:38:13.850 --> 00:38:17.190
VIRGINIA: I'm so sorry if you just had a drum burst.

00:38:19.370 --> 00:38:20.510
MARIA: Sorry.

00:38:21.910 --> 00:38:24.730
CHRISSY: I told you she gets a little bit more excited.

00:38:24.770 --> 00:38:25.410
VIRGINIA: She does.

00:38:25.510 --> 00:38:26.070
VIRGINIA: She does.

00:38:26.430 --> 00:38:36.290
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I would recommend personally, if you're going to be able to get in the virtual queue for DAS for Flight of Passage anyway, Navi River Journey always gets a really long line.

00:38:36.370 --> 00:38:40.770
VIRGINIA: So that would be, to me, the place to go first.

00:38:41.110 --> 00:38:47.150
VIRGINIA: And then if you go over to Everest, anytime during that first hour, usually, Everest has a really low weight.

00:38:48.150 --> 00:38:52.170
CHRISSY: Right, because everybody rushes over to Pandora.

00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:54.530
CHRISSY: So that's the game plan.

00:38:55.110 --> 00:38:56.270
VIRGINIA: OK, all right.

00:38:57.590 --> 00:39:01.190
VIRGINIA: Are you folks that like to ride Dinosaur?

00:39:02.130 --> 00:39:09.130
MARIA: I think because it's going to be closing at some point, I feel like I've heard rumors that it's going to be going away or something.

00:39:09.150 --> 00:39:10.310
MARIA: I think I want to ride it.

00:39:10.330 --> 00:39:11.770
MARIA: I don't dislike it.

00:39:14.470 --> 00:39:18.170
MARIA: It kind of makes me giggle a lot because we're not going to make it.

00:39:18.190 --> 00:39:19.550
MARIA: We're not going to make it.

00:39:19.570 --> 00:39:21.210
MARIA: We are going to make it.

00:39:21.230 --> 00:39:22.490
VIRGINIA: Calm down.

00:39:25.030 --> 00:39:26.730
MARIA: So I get entertained by it.

00:39:26.810 --> 00:39:30.130
MARIA: And Chrissy was very much a Dinosaur kid as a child.

00:39:30.150 --> 00:39:31.690
MARIA: Like she loved dinosaurs.

00:39:32.250 --> 00:39:36.650
CHRISSY: My Barbie rode a dinosaur because my sisters wouldn't let me rent the bar, borrow the Barbie cars.

00:39:37.510 --> 00:39:40.670
VIRGINIA: Oh, Maria.

00:39:40.810 --> 00:39:42.890
MARIA: Okay, well, here's the thing.

00:39:42.910 --> 00:39:46.090
MARIA: So we have an older sister and then me and then Chrissy.

00:39:46.690 --> 00:39:52.550
MARIA: So when we were kids, we got a hand-me-down Barbie car from one of our family friends or whatever.

00:39:52.690 --> 00:39:55.270
MARIA: So of course Fran, being the oldest, was like, this is mine.

00:39:57.210 --> 00:40:02.190
MARIA: And then for my birthday, I got a gray Barbie Corvette with teatops.

00:40:02.210 --> 00:40:04.130
MARIA: So obviously that one was mine.

00:40:04.150 --> 00:40:05.730
MARIA: It was a gift to me.

00:40:06.070 --> 00:40:07.230
MARIA: I don't need to share it.

00:40:07.830 --> 00:40:10.630
MARIA: So and obviously Fran's not going to share it because she's the oldest.

00:40:10.650 --> 00:40:14.710
MARIA: She has eminent domain over the first original pink Barbie Corvette.

00:40:15.630 --> 00:40:17.210
MARIA: So there was none for Chrissy.

00:40:17.410 --> 00:40:19.710
MARIA: So she used a, I mean, she's very industrious.

00:40:19.730 --> 00:40:20.750
MARIA: She used a Barbie doll.

00:40:20.770 --> 00:40:21.890
MARIA: She used a dinosaur.

00:40:21.910 --> 00:40:23.290
MARIA: And she was like, screw you guys.

00:40:23.310 --> 00:40:24.730
MARIA: I'm going to have Barbie on a dinosaur.

00:40:24.750 --> 00:40:29.810
VIRGINIA: I feel like that puts your personality anyway, though, Chrissy.

00:40:30.290 --> 00:40:34.050
VIRGINIA: Like if anybody's Barbie is going to ride a dinosaur, it's going to be Chrissy's.

00:40:35.690 --> 00:40:36.770
CHRISSY: Yeah, exactly.

00:40:36.790 --> 00:40:38.930
VIRGINIA: Oh my goodness.

00:40:39.730 --> 00:40:40.190
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:40:40.290 --> 00:40:44.150
VIRGINIA: So yeah, that's the reason I was asking about dinosaur was because it's going away.

00:40:44.170 --> 00:40:47.890
VIRGINIA: I think even people who don't like love it want to ride it one last time.

00:40:47.910 --> 00:40:53.190
VIRGINIA: And it's being converted over to the Indiana Jones ride like they have in Disneyland.

00:40:53.670 --> 00:40:54.610
CHRISSY: Oh, I didn't realize that.

00:40:54.650 --> 00:41:00.070
VIRGINIA: Yeah, they're both the same track anyway, which if you ride Indiana Jones over there, you can feel it's the same track.

00:41:00.350 --> 00:41:02.410
VIRGINIA: So they're just going to convert that.

00:41:02.470 --> 00:41:04.570
VIRGINIA: So, I mean, the track experience.

00:41:04.590 --> 00:41:08.190
VIRGINIA: But for those of us who are Dr.

00:41:08.210 --> 00:41:10.010
VIRGINIA: Seeker fans, I love Dr.

00:41:10.030 --> 00:41:10.390
VIRGINIA: Seeker.

00:41:10.550 --> 00:41:17.330
VIRGINIA: The way he enters the screen with his little dinosaur hand puppet gets yelled at by Alicia Rashad.

00:41:17.350 --> 00:41:19.810
VIRGINIA: He's just so endearing to me.

00:41:19.990 --> 00:41:26.730
VIRGINIA: So I definitely want to get that in one last time, because I have no idea when the conversion is going to happen.

00:41:27.150 --> 00:41:27.450
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:41:27.790 --> 00:41:46.170
MARIA: Speaking of things that are getting converted that would possibly be the last time we're going to see it, if the people who listened last time will remember my hot take of I don't really like the Country Bear Jamboree because I think it's weird and creepy, I might be interested in going on that and watching that one last time.

00:41:46.190 --> 00:41:48.310
VIRGINIA: Maria, I have some bad news for you.

00:41:49.250 --> 00:41:50.310
VIRGINIA: It closed this week.

00:41:51.090 --> 00:41:51.770
CHRISSY: What?

00:41:51.770 --> 00:41:55.350
MARIA: I thought it was not supposed to close until like the 26th.

00:41:56.010 --> 00:41:57.210
VIRGINIA: No, it has already closed.

00:41:57.230 --> 00:41:58.610
MARIA: Why did they close it early?

00:41:58.770 --> 00:41:59.770
CHRISSY: Who did that?

00:42:00.070 --> 00:42:00.590
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:42:00.790 --> 00:42:01.250
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:42:01.270 --> 00:42:02.710
VIRGINIA: Because I was thinking.

00:42:02.730 --> 00:42:03.770
CHRISSY: She was like, let's go.

00:42:03.790 --> 00:42:05.130
CHRISSY: And I was like, I'll just speak next.

00:42:05.130 --> 00:42:06.210
CHRISSY: It'll be fine.

00:42:06.230 --> 00:42:06.750
VIRGINIA: I know.

00:42:08.410 --> 00:42:09.830
VIRGINIA: I didn't know when it was going to close either.

00:42:09.850 --> 00:42:13.490
VIRGINIA: And I was like, oh, I can't wait to see my sister's face when she sees this thing.

00:42:14.130 --> 00:42:16.830
MARIA: No, it was supposed to be January 26th.

00:42:17.210 --> 00:42:18.870
VIRGINIA: No, it literally this week.

00:42:18.890 --> 00:42:19.550
VIRGINIA: Cross it off the list.

00:42:19.770 --> 00:42:20.330
VIRGINIA: This week.

00:42:20.830 --> 00:42:24.550
VIRGINIA: And I wonder, it makes me wonder if it's closed.

00:42:25.090 --> 00:42:30.230
VIRGINIA: When it reopens, you know, it's still going to be country bears just like a different way of doing it.

00:42:30.250 --> 00:42:35.310
VIRGINIA: So my question is, while it's closed, will those bears still be roaming frontier land?

00:42:35.610 --> 00:42:36.310
VIRGINIA: Probably so.

00:42:37.570 --> 00:42:38.250
CHRISSY: I think so.

00:42:38.270 --> 00:42:38.750
CHRISSY: Probably.

00:42:39.010 --> 00:42:44.670
CHRISSY: I saw on Instagram, they did a little feature with some of the new music.

00:42:45.010 --> 00:42:47.030
CHRISSY: And I was like, this is music I can get behind.

00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:48.570
CHRISSY: This is music I can get behind.

00:42:48.570 --> 00:42:50.370
CHRISSY: I did not understand the last premise.

00:42:50.570 --> 00:42:52.130
CHRISSY: To me, it was air-conditioned nap time.

00:42:52.570 --> 00:42:56.790
CHRISSY: Actually, the last time we went, it was so weird that I was like, we got to go.

00:42:58.210 --> 00:42:59.550
VIRGINIA: Guys, what does that say?

00:42:59.570 --> 00:43:00.530
MARIA: It's still open.

00:43:00.950 --> 00:43:06.190
MARIA: It says there's a 15-minute wait for Country Bears Jamboree today on the 14th.

00:43:06.330 --> 00:43:07.410
MARIA: I think you're lying to me, Virginia.

00:43:07.430 --> 00:43:09.170
MARIA: I think it's not supposed to close until the 26th.

00:43:10.670 --> 00:43:12.270
VIRGINIA: I swear I saw it in the news.

00:43:13.050 --> 00:43:20.490
MARIA: I saw that it was closing, not that it had closed, unless the wait times on My Disney Experience is lying.

00:43:21.790 --> 00:43:22.190
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:43:22.210 --> 00:43:23.470
CHRISSY: I mean, it often does.

00:43:23.490 --> 00:43:25.710
VIRGINIA: I'm not afraid to admit when I'm wrong.

00:43:28.130 --> 00:43:29.050
VIRGINIA: Country Bear.

00:43:29.130 --> 00:43:33.990
MARIA: I mean, I will say for the listeners there, if they happen to be closed by the time we get there, I'm not going to cry.

00:43:34.010 --> 00:43:38.330
MARIA: It was more so like I want to go watch it to be like, wow, no, I was right.

00:43:38.350 --> 00:43:38.950
MARIA: This thing is weird.

00:43:38.970 --> 00:43:39.790
MARIA: They need to redo it.

00:43:40.190 --> 00:43:40.710
VIRGINIA: Hmm.

00:43:41.250 --> 00:43:45.750
VIRGINIA: Maybe what I saw was that they had announced new details about the closing.

00:43:45.750 --> 00:43:47.510
VIRGINIA: And in my mind, I read...

00:43:47.530 --> 00:43:48.410
MARIA: Oh, maybe that's what it was.

00:43:49.750 --> 00:43:50.490
MARIA: It was already done.

00:43:50.510 --> 00:43:50.890
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:43:50.910 --> 00:43:54.910
VIRGINIA: The final date to see the current version of Julian is January 26th.

00:43:54.910 --> 00:43:57.530
VIRGINIA: Maria, two points to Maria.

00:43:57.550 --> 00:43:59.690
MARIA: I left the record, Chef.

00:43:59.830 --> 00:44:00.370
MARIA: I'm sorry.

00:44:00.390 --> 00:44:01.230
MARIA: I'm such a jerk.

00:44:03.370 --> 00:44:04.270
VIRGINIA: No, I'm not.

00:44:06.130 --> 00:44:07.910
VIRGINIA: I'm happy to let you be right.

00:44:08.070 --> 00:44:15.450
VIRGINIA: I do not have any qualms about saying when I have given wrong information, I would rather provide the right information.

00:44:16.370 --> 00:44:17.910
VIRGINIA: So, I'm happy to be corrected.

00:44:18.150 --> 00:44:18.570
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:44:18.650 --> 00:44:20.630
VIRGINIA: Well, lucky ladies.

00:44:20.630 --> 00:44:21.290
MARIA: So, there we go.

00:44:21.310 --> 00:44:22.930
VIRGINIA: You get to see it one fine time.

00:44:22.950 --> 00:44:23.510
VIRGINIA: Sorry, Chris.

00:44:23.610 --> 00:44:24.270
MARIA: Nap time.

00:44:25.810 --> 00:44:27.370
MARIA: Chris, I'm giving you an air-conditioned nap.

00:44:27.390 --> 00:44:28.010
MARIA: It's fine.

00:44:28.590 --> 00:44:29.510
CHRISSY: I'm okay with that.

00:44:29.830 --> 00:44:30.310
MARIA: It's fine.

00:44:30.330 --> 00:44:34.630
VIRGINIA: I just feel like, to me, it's like Chuck E.

00:44:34.650 --> 00:44:38.090
VIRGINIA: Cheese with weird music.

00:44:38.170 --> 00:44:39.590
VIRGINIA: And I listened to...

00:44:39.610 --> 00:44:41.250
VIRGINIA: I can't remember what podcast it was.

00:44:41.270 --> 00:44:47.190
VIRGINIA: I was listening to one of these podcasts that talks sort of about the history of Disney and are more history-based.

00:44:47.810 --> 00:44:55.770
VIRGINIA: And there was an episode where they were talking about the Country Bear Jamboree and what the songs were, because we are all confused about the songs.

00:44:56.170 --> 00:45:06.870
VIRGINIA: But most of the songs that are in the show were hits back in the day, like pop hits, I guess you'd call them.

00:45:06.890 --> 00:45:17.670
VIRGINIA: And so they made sense back then at the time, because it was close enough to when they were actually pop hits when that attraction opened for the people that were watching it to get it.

00:45:18.610 --> 00:45:20.530
VIRGINIA: We're just modern audiences.

00:45:20.890 --> 00:45:22.430
VIRGINIA: So yeah.

00:45:22.710 --> 00:45:23.170
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:45:23.470 --> 00:45:23.910
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:45:24.150 --> 00:45:28.330
VIRGINIA: Well, I'm a little bit jealous, I have to say, because I really wanted to see it one.

00:45:35.750 --> 00:45:36.070
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:45:36.170 --> 00:45:40.010
VIRGINIA: Well, first of all, there is probably a million good recordings on YouTube.

00:45:40.050 --> 00:45:47.550
VIRGINIA: Second of all, I would love your commentary, but I also don't want to annoy other guests with you sitting there talking the entire time.

00:45:48.030 --> 00:45:58.690
VIRGINIA: If you had a way to record it and then go back and put voiceovers with you making comments, I would love that.

00:45:58.750 --> 00:45:59.250
MARIA: We'll see.

00:45:59.390 --> 00:45:59.850
MARIA: We'll see.

00:45:59.870 --> 00:46:04.430
MARIA: I make no promises because I may also be like, this was dumb.

00:46:04.450 --> 00:46:08.470
MARIA: I saw it once and never need to see it again, but I just wanted to put it out there that I might.

00:46:09.030 --> 00:46:17.710
MARIA: I know last time I pooped all over it, but I want to maybe give it one last try and then say good riddance forever.

00:46:19.330 --> 00:46:31.350
VIRGINIA: Chrissy, if you happen to have access to the Instagram you saw with the preview of the new music and would share that with me, I would be happy to put it in the show notes so anybody who's listening to this can take a listen too.

00:46:31.370 --> 00:46:32.290
VIRGINIA: I'm excited to hear it.

00:46:33.270 --> 00:46:33.810
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:46:34.390 --> 00:46:36.750
VIRGINIA: So where were we?

00:46:36.950 --> 00:46:38.850
VIRGINIA: So we were talking about Animal Kingdom.

00:46:38.870 --> 00:46:45.730
MARIA: So getting back to what we talked about, yes, Animal Kingdom, Saturday morning, and then eventually hopping over to Epcot that afternoon.

00:46:46.750 --> 00:46:50.710
VIRGINIA: Are you going to stay and watch Luminous that night?

00:46:52.110 --> 00:46:52.730
MARIA: Possibly.

00:46:53.370 --> 00:46:55.990
MARIA: I think it might depend on how tired we feel.

00:46:56.790 --> 00:47:00.950
MARIA: But yeah, I think I would I would like to.

00:47:00.970 --> 00:47:04.230
MARIA: I didn't really love Harmonious, sorry, hot take.

00:47:06.310 --> 00:47:11.330
MARIA: But I think now that this one, there's the new one is is here, Luminous is out.

00:47:11.350 --> 00:47:14.370
MARIA: I think maybe we'll see it and see if we like it.

00:47:16.230 --> 00:47:21.690
MARIA: And if not, like, well, it might be a one and done, but it might be, oh, my gosh, we need to watch it all the time.

00:47:22.430 --> 00:47:23.090
MARIA: I don't think it will.

00:47:23.110 --> 00:47:27.590
MARIA: I don't think anything will ever take over happily ever after in my heart.

00:47:28.190 --> 00:47:34.270
VIRGINIA: But well, no, but I think you can only compare the nighttime shows at Epcot to nighttime shows at Epcot.

00:47:34.290 --> 00:47:37.050
VIRGINIA: I don't think it's fair to put it against happily ever after.

00:47:37.990 --> 00:47:38.890
VIRGINIA: Chrissy, what are your thoughts?

00:47:39.130 --> 00:47:40.810
MARIA: I never really liked Illuminations.

00:47:41.330 --> 00:47:44.310
CHRISSY: Yes, because I really did not like Illuminations.

00:47:44.330 --> 00:47:47.310
CHRISSY: I didn't either.

00:47:47.330 --> 00:47:49.510
CHRISSY: To me, I was like, all right, is Harmonious amazing?

00:47:49.530 --> 00:47:51.150
CHRISSY: No, but it's still better than Illuminations was.

00:47:52.010 --> 00:47:52.230
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:47:52.490 --> 00:47:56.490
VIRGINIA: I didn't like the barges of Harmonious, but I love the music.

00:47:56.510 --> 00:47:58.690
VIRGINIA: I've mentioned this multiple times on the podcast.

00:47:58.750 --> 00:48:00.170
VIRGINIA: I listen to that while I work.

00:48:00.190 --> 00:48:01.790
VIRGINIA: I listen to the Harmonious soundtrack.

00:48:02.630 --> 00:48:08.830
VIRGINIA: There's something really relaxing about listening to songs you're familiar with in other languages because you don't get distracted.

00:48:08.850 --> 00:48:10.650
VIRGINIA: You can actually keep working while you listen.

00:48:11.870 --> 00:48:12.370
VIRGINIA: I like that.

00:48:12.530 --> 00:48:14.750
MARIA: I listened to it the other day at work thinking of you.

00:48:15.910 --> 00:48:16.690
VIRGINIA: Did you enjoy it?

00:48:16.710 --> 00:48:17.770
VIRGINIA: I did.

00:48:19.830 --> 00:48:22.570
VIRGINIA: I love when they do How Far I'll Go.

00:48:22.590 --> 00:48:28.570
VIRGINIA: It's in all the other languages, but the line that comes out in English really loud is Where I Long To Be.

00:48:29.630 --> 00:48:33.990
VIRGINIA: It always like no matter what I'm doing, I'm working, I'm listening, I'm not getting distracted by it.

00:48:34.210 --> 00:48:38.710
VIRGINIA: When they do that one line, I stop and if nobody's around, I will lip sync with it.

00:48:41.530 --> 00:48:53.950
CHRISSY: Well, and with The Night Time Show, so because this is with this being an annual tradition for the two of us, it does feel like there's a lot less pressure to make sure that we get every single thing checked off.

00:48:54.150 --> 00:49:05.470
CHRISSY: Like if we're tired, I don't feel like I'm not getting my money's worth if we go back to our hotel and rest or we take a break somewhere air conditioned, again, not so much an issue in January.

00:49:06.010 --> 00:49:09.550
CHRISSY: But there's a lot less pressure on feeling like we've got to do every single thing.

00:49:09.970 --> 00:49:15.690
VIRGINIA: I had a technical question for you two as the Skyliner will be down during your trip.

00:49:16.190 --> 00:49:32.650
VIRGINIA: Now I know that during times when there are like lightning strikes or things like that, and they have to close the Skyliner like during regular times when it's, you know, up and running but stops momentarily, they will replace the Skyliner with buses.

00:49:33.130 --> 00:49:47.070
VIRGINIA: So do you know in advance of this trip is the bus situation like you don't you should not have to go all the way to the front of the park because when they shut the Skyliner down they usually run buses that kind of run along where the Skyliner route is.

00:49:47.590 --> 00:49:52.610
VIRGINIA: So you can catch a bus right next to the Skyliner entrance at the International Gateway.

00:49:53.330 --> 00:49:56.650
VIRGINIA: So you both this looks like new information based on your faces.

00:49:56.870 --> 00:50:09.510
VIRGINIA: So I'm going to say when you arrive that day, ask a cast member because when you are ready to leave for the day, you may be able to enter, excuse me, exit out the International Gateway.

00:50:09.790 --> 00:50:18.690
VIRGINIA: And there's like a sidewalk that goes right past the Skyliner that like you could they will lead you off down that sidewalk to then catch a bus.

00:50:18.710 --> 00:50:21.810
VIRGINIA: That's what happens when it goes down for like weather.

00:50:22.610 --> 00:50:24.010
CHRISSY: Oh, okay.

00:50:24.150 --> 00:50:24.710
MARIA: Interesting.

00:50:24.730 --> 00:50:33.330
MARIA: Because I was because in my head I was thinking on the other side like at pop like there's a bus stop for Epcot at the front of pop like there is at every other like value resort.

00:50:33.530 --> 00:50:34.250
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:50:34.930 --> 00:50:39.350
MARIA: But I didn't think about like not having to yes, Chris, we'll have to remember to ask that.

00:50:41.090 --> 00:50:42.430
CHRISSY: I've added it to my listing.

00:50:42.530 --> 00:50:43.010
VIRGINIA: Thank you.

00:50:43.170 --> 00:51:06.870
VIRGINIA: I have to like I don't really remember but I think like if you're standing like you've you've exited the International Gateway and you're staring at the sidewalk up to the skyliner where the cast members like motioning you to the skyliner or whatever, I think just to the left of them maybe is there's like a little gate with a sidewalk and that's where they open it up during those times and they're like buses over here.

00:51:07.550 --> 00:51:11.290
MARIA: But I don't So like instead of going up that ramp, it's to the left of that ramp.

00:51:11.410 --> 00:51:12.130
VIRGINIA: I think so.

00:51:12.150 --> 00:51:22.510
VIRGINIA: You go off to the side of the ramp and it takes you off to where a bus is waiting and then you can take that to go back to any of the skyliners.

00:51:22.530 --> 00:51:22.790
MARIA: Okay.

00:51:22.810 --> 00:51:23.290
MARIA: Resorts.

00:51:23.810 --> 00:51:40.210
VIRGINIA: So just something to ask about now, just as a note, when the Skyliner has closed based on weather, from what I've heard from people, even though that is the protocol, like the Skyliner has stopped, we are now reverting over to the bus system along this way.

00:51:40.670 --> 00:51:47.970
VIRGINIA: Not every cast member knows what's supposed to be happening or is well versed on where these buses might be or that they even do that.

00:51:48.670 --> 00:51:54.190
VIRGINIA: So, ask a cast member, but also be prepared the fact that they may not know about the ______ thing.

00:51:54.210 --> 00:51:55.050
MARIA: To ask another one?

00:51:55.670 --> 00:51:56.050
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:51:56.050 --> 00:52:00.550
VIRGINIA: I would ask at least two to get, you know, a clear sense of what actually is going on.

00:52:00.550 --> 00:52:03.450
VIRGINIA: But I would just hate for you to walk all the way to the front of the park.

00:52:04.010 --> 00:52:07.130
MARIA: That's usually my MO when I'm in New York and have to ask someone questions.

00:52:07.150 --> 00:52:14.410
MARIA: You always have to ask someone two people questions because someone might just be wanting to mess with you or just not have any idea of what they're doing.

00:52:14.430 --> 00:52:15.950
MARIA: So you got to corroborate the answers.

00:52:16.190 --> 00:52:16.530
VIRGINIA: Right.

00:52:16.610 --> 00:52:16.930
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:52:17.070 --> 00:52:17.330
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:52:17.690 --> 00:52:23.570
CHRISSY: I'm excited when we're in Apcot to see Sorenover, California and have a slightly different experience there.

00:52:24.770 --> 00:52:26.950
VIRGINIA: Maria, have you done Sorenover, California before?

00:52:27.190 --> 00:52:27.530
VIRGINIA: Oh, wait.

00:52:27.550 --> 00:52:28.490
VIRGINIA: You did it in October.

00:52:28.510 --> 00:52:29.050
MARIA: Yes, ma'am.

00:52:29.070 --> 00:52:30.050
MARIA: I did it back in October.

00:52:30.070 --> 00:52:31.470
VIRGINIA: Yeah, you did.

00:52:31.490 --> 00:52:31.790
MARIA: Yes.

00:52:32.390 --> 00:52:34.990
CHRISSY: So she's just going to have to experience my childlike wonder.

00:52:35.010 --> 00:52:37.930
MARIA: Because Mike did not have childlike wonder on it.

00:52:38.350 --> 00:52:38.670
VIRGINIA: No.

00:52:39.590 --> 00:52:45.310
VIRGINIA: I've now had my own opportunity to write Sorenover, California, which I had not when you and I spoke, Maria.

00:52:46.530 --> 00:52:47.970
VIRGINIA: So, I enjoy it.

00:52:48.210 --> 00:52:53.570
VIRGINIA: I like Soren Around the World better, partly because of the transitions.

00:52:53.710 --> 00:52:58.870
VIRGINIA: When you do Sorenover, California, it's like it just dramatically jumps from one scene to the other.

00:53:00.590 --> 00:53:01.450
VIRGINIA: So I'd rather it like-

00:53:01.470 --> 00:53:01.590
MARIA: Right.

00:53:01.610 --> 00:53:03.090
MARIA: There's no whale jumping the-

00:53:03.530 --> 00:53:04.730
VIRGINIA: I want a whale jumping.

00:53:04.810 --> 00:53:06.930
VIRGINIA: I want sand being thrown in the air.

00:53:07.090 --> 00:53:07.670
VIRGINIA: I want-

00:53:08.010 --> 00:53:08.710
CHRISSY: That's exactly.

00:53:08.890 --> 00:53:11.230
CHRISSY: I want it to smell like elephants and grasslands.

00:53:11.250 --> 00:53:12.770
VIRGINIA: I don't know if I want it to smell like elephants.

00:53:13.730 --> 00:53:16.250
MARIA: Elephants, yeah, grasslands, yes, elephants, no.

00:53:20.210 --> 00:53:20.790
VIRGINIA: Oh, my goodness.

00:53:20.810 --> 00:53:21.130
MARIA: Yes.

00:53:21.490 --> 00:53:21.910
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:53:22.070 --> 00:53:26.310
VIRGINIA: Sunday, January 21st, which park are you going to that day?

00:53:26.330 --> 00:53:28.850
VIRGINIA: I'm going to take a stab and say Hollywood Studios.

00:53:30.210 --> 00:53:32.250
MARIA: Oh, Virginia, you are very smart.

00:53:32.270 --> 00:53:32.510
MARIA: Yes.

00:53:33.490 --> 00:53:38.930
MARIA: Hollywood Studios opens at 9 o'clock that day, so 830 for early entry.

00:53:38.990 --> 00:53:43.110
MARIA: And then we have Das for Slinky Dog at 930, Toy Story Mania at 10.

00:53:43.930 --> 00:53:44.370
VIRGINIA: Nice.

00:53:45.330 --> 00:53:48.310
VIRGINIA: What are your other priorities at Hollywood Studios?

00:53:48.830 --> 00:54:00.550
MARIA: I think for me, it would be Rise, Mickey and Minnie's, and The Frozen Show because Chrissy knows and I think I told the listeners last time that I love The Frozen Sing-Along.

00:54:01.330 --> 00:54:05.110
MARIA: I cry during the Snoop at the end of The Frozen Sing-Along.

00:54:05.130 --> 00:54:15.270
MARIA: Chrissy has multiple videos and multiple pictures of me crying during it, so I wouldn't want to deprive her of that childlike joy that I get.

00:54:15.290 --> 00:54:19.190
CHRISSY: No, that would be really sad.

00:54:19.510 --> 00:54:19.970
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:54:20.310 --> 00:54:21.450
MARIA: Do you have any other priorities?

00:54:22.870 --> 00:54:28.790
CHRISSY: I really like wandering around in Batuu in the morning when it's a little bit quieter and there's just not as much going on.

00:54:28.810 --> 00:54:30.910
CHRISSY: I feel like you can kind of explore and wander a little bit.

00:54:32.790 --> 00:54:37.610
CHRISSY: So I want to have at least a little bit of time to just do some of that exploration.

00:54:37.630 --> 00:54:43.530
CHRISSY: But no, ride priorities are pretty much the same as what Maria share.

00:54:43.810 --> 00:54:47.510
CHRISSY: And honestly, my biggest priority and a breakfast ronto wrap.

00:54:47.530 --> 00:54:50.950
CHRISSY: We're very snack-motivated on our trips.

00:54:50.950 --> 00:54:53.350
MARIA: We haven't really talked about snacks yet, have we?

00:54:54.070 --> 00:54:54.990
VIRGINIA: No, we have not.

00:54:55.250 --> 00:55:03.090
CHRISSY: Literally, my list of priorities was trun happily ever after an international festival of the arts, and in parentheses, it says mostly the snacks.

00:55:03.630 --> 00:55:06.590
CHRISSY: So I know where my priorities lie.

00:55:06.790 --> 00:55:16.350
CHRISSY: And then on Sunday, like I said, my other, it's not in Hollywood Studios, but I don't care if we only just go over to Magic Kingdom, specifically to just ride Big Thunder.

00:55:16.790 --> 00:55:21.150
CHRISSY: But Big Thunder is closed until Sunday, and we will be going back to ride Big Thunder.

00:55:21.970 --> 00:55:22.710
VIRGINIA: Oh, I hope so.

00:55:22.730 --> 00:55:27.450
CHRISSY: I don't care if that's the last thing I do when we go back to our, like, it can just be once, but that is happening.

00:55:29.210 --> 00:55:33.510
VIRGINIA: Yeah, I love Big Thunder, and it is the wildest ride in the wilderness.

00:55:33.530 --> 00:55:35.150
VIRGINIA: So you must get over there.

00:55:36.530 --> 00:55:41.450
VIRGINIA: How long will it have been down before it reopens on Sunday the 21st?

00:55:42.190 --> 00:55:43.810
CHRISSY: I think it's just like a week or two.

00:55:43.830 --> 00:55:46.430
CHRISSY: It's not, it's regular winter maintenance a lot.

00:55:46.450 --> 00:55:54.230
CHRISSY: And that's the thing about going in, that's the risk of going in January is there's a bunch of things, like when Splash Mountain was open, this was always around when Splash Mountain's winter maintenance was.

00:55:55.590 --> 00:55:58.870
CHRISSY: But for me, it's worth it to not have the crowds.

00:55:59.030 --> 00:55:59.590
VIRGINIA: Or the heat.

00:56:00.290 --> 00:56:02.150
MARIA: Like Big Thunder's open today.

00:56:02.370 --> 00:56:05.470
MARIA: So it's a short refurb.

00:56:05.790 --> 00:56:06.070
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:06.090 --> 00:56:06.330
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:56:07.610 --> 00:56:07.970
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:56:07.990 --> 00:56:14.830
VIRGINIA: Do you have any dining reservations this day for lunch or dinner, since we know you'll be having your breakfast ronto wrap?

00:56:15.690 --> 00:56:17.510
MARIA: No, I think we'll do the breakfast ronto wrap.

00:56:18.650 --> 00:56:22.950
MARIA: I mean, I like the quick service from Woody's Lunchbox.

00:56:23.170 --> 00:56:25.830
MARIA: I like the quick service from Backlot Express.

00:56:25.850 --> 00:56:31.070
MARIA: I like ABC Commissary, because I think those places you can get decent salads and stuff like that.

00:56:31.070 --> 00:56:45.730
MARIA: So my imagination would be we'd get the ronto wrap for breakfast, name whatever kind of quick service, and then hop over to, if we're hopping over to Magic Kingdom, maybe even just getting like corn dog nugs.

00:56:46.690 --> 00:56:48.310
MARIA: I love those corn dog nuggets from Casey's.

00:56:48.970 --> 00:56:49.450
VIRGINIA: Mm-hmm.

00:56:49.750 --> 00:56:50.110
VIRGINIA: Yep.

00:56:50.350 --> 00:56:51.030
VIRGINIA: They're a classic.

00:56:51.750 --> 00:56:52.910
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:56:52.930 --> 00:56:58.570
VIRGINIA: So we've made it to Monday, January 22nd, which is your departure day.

00:56:59.150 --> 00:57:01.330
VIRGINIA: What time are your flights this day?

00:57:02.270 --> 00:57:02.810
CHRISSY: Chrissy's flight?

00:57:02.830 --> 00:57:03.250
VIRGINIA: Pretty late.

00:57:03.450 --> 00:57:05.070
MARIA: Yeah, 6.50 and 7.10.

00:57:06.650 --> 00:57:09.750
CHRISSY: And we do actually have a reservation that day.

00:57:10.710 --> 00:57:18.530
CHRISSY: Maria found on the internet that if you get any service at the Grand Floridian Spa, you're able to use the spa amenities for the day.

00:57:18.910 --> 00:57:25.330
CHRISSY: So, we're getting pedicures and hanging out in the spa for a decent chunk of the morning.

00:57:26.090 --> 00:57:27.110
CHRISSY: Something new to try.

00:57:29.170 --> 00:57:29.610
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:57:29.790 --> 00:57:35.830
VIRGINIA: I did a massage during my solo trip and it was lovely.

00:57:35.890 --> 00:57:46.970
VIRGINIA: And I did not spend very much time over in the spa after it was over, but it seemed really lovely like they had all the cucumber water that you could drink.

00:57:47.150 --> 00:57:48.690
MARIA: But you know, I love cucumber stuff.

00:57:49.910 --> 00:57:50.590
VIRGINIA: I know you do.

00:57:52.410 --> 00:58:11.350
VIRGINIA: And I think that like they, I don't know if it was just because I got a massage or whether they'll do this for your pedicure or not, but I walked away with like a little tiny like Grand Floridian branded bag of like bath salts and they just smell so good.

00:58:11.350 --> 00:58:16.770
VIRGINIA: I have yet to use them because I'm like, I don't know, saving them for a special day.

00:58:16.790 --> 00:58:17.970
MARIA: Saving them for a rainy day?

00:58:17.990 --> 00:58:18.170
MARIA: Yeah.

00:58:18.350 --> 00:58:26.450
VIRGINIA: Saving them for a rainy day and saving them for a time when I have access to a giant deep bathtub, which I do not have in this city apartment.

00:58:26.650 --> 00:58:36.010
VIRGINIA: So perhaps, perhaps I should throw them into my luggage for my February trip because I will have that deep, so good time, I will run a lodge.

00:58:36.430 --> 00:58:37.210
VIRGINIA: That's my plan.

00:58:38.310 --> 00:58:41.290
VIRGINIA: They're going to be like, ma'am, what's this in your luggage?

00:58:41.310 --> 00:58:43.770
VIRGINIA: I'm going to be like, it's 50 pounds of bath salts.

00:58:47.730 --> 00:58:49.350
CHRISSY: It's bath salts, but not the drug kind.

00:58:49.370 --> 00:58:50.510
VIRGINIA: No, no, not the drug kind.

00:58:50.530 --> 00:58:51.150
MARIA: Exactly.

00:58:51.170 --> 00:58:51.550
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:58:53.470 --> 00:59:00.810
MARIA: But I think we saw, I saw online that like, you have access to like, there's like a steam room and like relaxation rooms and like a whirlpool.

00:59:01.290 --> 00:59:06.850
MARIA: So we're just going to be like, you know, ladies of leisure, ladies of leisure at the spa for the morning.

00:59:06.870 --> 00:59:12.510
MARIA: And then I also want to go to, so we can also go to Basin then.

00:59:13.170 --> 00:59:13.550
CHRISSY: Yeah.

00:59:13.730 --> 00:59:16.510
CHRISSY: Basin, I'm very sensitive to smell.

00:59:16.530 --> 00:59:20.550
CHRISSY: So my tolerance for Basin is like five minutes, but I can sit outside while Maria shops.

00:59:21.410 --> 00:59:21.650
VIRGINIA: Yeah.

00:59:21.670 --> 00:59:26.630
VIRGINIA: There are worse places to sit than in the lobby of the Grand Floridian listening to piano music and people watching.

00:59:27.250 --> 00:59:27.790
CHRISSY: Exactly.

00:59:28.270 --> 00:59:32.830
VIRGINIA: And do you think you will get any time over in the Enchanted Rose?

00:59:34.070 --> 00:59:37.390
VIRGINIA: Maybe have a little pre-departure cocktail?

00:59:38.170 --> 00:59:38.790
MARIA: Perhaps.

00:59:39.070 --> 00:59:39.710
VIRGINIA: Both of them.

00:59:39.730 --> 00:59:41.850
VIRGINIA: I see like light bulbs coming on.

00:59:46.510 --> 00:59:46.750
MARIA: I mean.

00:59:48.170 --> 00:59:51.630
CHRISSY: And I feel like a drink on a Monday afternoon sounds like a great idea.

00:59:51.650 --> 00:59:52.990
MARIA: Always.

00:59:53.270 --> 00:59:54.590
MARIA: It's always a good idea.

00:59:54.610 --> 00:59:57.250
VIRGINIA: I don't know what time they open.

00:59:57.570 --> 01:00:04.870
VIRGINIA: It's got to be sometime in the afternoon though, because I remember when I went over there in December, it was like just opening.

01:00:05.270 --> 01:00:07.790
VIRGINIA: So it might be like three o'clock.

01:00:07.810 --> 01:00:12.630
VIRGINIA: It might be cutting it real close for you to be able to get back to pop and get your things.

01:00:12.650 --> 01:00:15.750
VIRGINIA: Because I imagine you will leave your things at pop with the...

01:00:15.890 --> 01:00:16.750
MARIA: 3.30.

01:00:16.770 --> 01:00:19.450
MARIA: It doesn't open until 3.30.

01:00:19.770 --> 01:00:20.210
VIRGINIA: Okay.

01:00:20.370 --> 01:00:21.530
VIRGINIA: I might be too tight.

01:00:21.650 --> 01:00:22.030
MARIA: Oh well.

01:00:22.230 --> 01:00:22.950
MARIA: Another time.

01:00:23.350 --> 01:00:29.370
VIRGINIA: Well, I mean, there's nothing stopping you from getting a cocktail somewhere else, right?

01:00:29.890 --> 01:00:30.430
MARIA: That's true.

01:00:30.590 --> 01:00:31.250
MARIA: That's true.

01:00:31.270 --> 01:00:38.430
VIRGINIA: Like go back to Pop Century to get your things and have a little margarita at the bar before you head out.

01:00:38.470 --> 01:00:46.990
CHRISSY: Well, I know people are very, people are, people are very, like, I want to drink around the world and I'm like, I want my calories to go to snacks.

01:00:47.010 --> 01:00:47.410
CHRISSY: Thank you.

01:00:47.430 --> 01:00:54.970
CHRISSY: So like, we will have a drink, but, but our Disney trips do not usually involve a ton of alcohol.

01:00:54.990 --> 01:00:57.130
CHRISSY: Like I said, I would just rather spend my money on snacks.

01:00:58.450 --> 01:01:00.750
VIRGINIA: I think that there's value in both, right?

01:01:00.770 --> 01:01:04.870
MARIA: I was gonna say there are a couple cocktails in Festival of the Arts that look interesting.

01:01:06.030 --> 01:01:06.550
VIRGINIA: Oh, yeah.

01:01:06.570 --> 01:01:07.450
MARIA: That I might want to try.

01:01:07.770 --> 01:01:08.070
MARIA: Yeah.

01:01:08.890 --> 01:01:09.190
MARIA: Okay.

01:01:09.530 --> 01:01:09.970
CHRISSY: I'm down.

01:01:10.290 --> 01:01:12.270
CHRISSY: And again, it won't be seven million degrees.

01:01:12.610 --> 01:01:15.450
CHRISSY: That's always, that's the problem is I don't want to mix alcohol and high humidity.

01:01:15.470 --> 01:01:18.070
VIRGINIA: No, it will be easier to do then.

01:01:18.370 --> 01:01:25.150
VIRGINIA: And there's nothing that says that when you get a drink at one of those booths that it has to be all you.

01:01:25.310 --> 01:01:27.970
VIRGINIA: You could split them and that way you get to try more things.

01:01:27.990 --> 01:01:28.530
MARIA: We can share.

01:01:30.630 --> 01:01:31.190
VIRGINIA: It's true.

01:01:31.210 --> 01:01:32.930
VIRGINIA: So what time do you...

01:01:32.950 --> 01:01:33.810
MARIA: Sharing is caring.

01:01:35.550 --> 01:01:36.050
VIRGINIA: It's true.

01:01:36.150 --> 01:01:36.490
VIRGINIA: It is.

01:01:37.030 --> 01:01:46.570
VIRGINIA: What time do you anticipate needing to head back to Pop Century to get your luggage so that you will have enough time to comfortably make your flights?

01:01:47.230 --> 01:01:48.950
MARIA: Oh, I hadn't thought of that part yet.

01:01:49.410 --> 01:01:50.710
MARIA: I don't like to think about the leaving.

01:01:51.350 --> 01:01:58.450
CHRISSY: For the leaving, we will almost always do a Lyft or an Uber just because you have a little bit...

01:01:58.470 --> 01:02:03.790
CHRISSY: You have a lot more control over departure, over your departure time versus like the big bus systems.

01:02:03.790 --> 01:02:05.290
CHRISSY: But I also...

01:02:05.310 --> 01:02:10.710
CHRISSY: I mean, we both have pre-check, so I don't feel like we have to get to the airport crazy early.

01:02:10.730 --> 01:02:11.990
CHRISSY: I also...

01:02:12.010 --> 01:02:13.110
CHRISSY: I am by nature...

01:02:13.130 --> 01:02:16.430
CHRISSY: I'm a little bit of a chaos muppet when it comes to flights.

01:02:16.450 --> 01:02:19.010
CHRISSY: I'm like, I'll get to the airport an hour before boarding.

01:02:19.590 --> 01:02:21.170
CHRISSY: Okay, I don't need to sit around.

01:02:22.190 --> 01:02:24.550
MARIA: That's why I like to fly after she leaves.

01:02:25.170 --> 01:02:30.310
CHRISSY: So Maria gets to be in charge of the airport times because I'd be like, no, it's fine.

01:02:30.330 --> 01:02:36.750
VIRGINIA: Okay, I just want to pause and acknowledge that I love the term chaos muppet.

01:02:37.050 --> 01:02:40.350
CHRISSY: There's a theory about order muppets and chaos muppets, and it's real.

01:02:40.830 --> 01:02:42.270
MARIA: Wait, have I never heard of this?

01:02:42.290 --> 01:02:43.130
VIRGINIA: I've never heard of this.

01:02:44.630 --> 01:02:49.030
VIRGINIA: My wheels are turning and I'm like, Stitch is too chaotic for me.

01:02:49.050 --> 01:02:51.850
VIRGINIA: All these things are too chaotic for me, but I love muppets.

01:02:52.230 --> 01:02:58.090
VIRGINIA: So chaos muppet doesn't sound that bad to me, except for maybe like animal.

01:02:58.170 --> 01:02:59.950
VIRGINIA: Animal is a little too chaotic for me.

01:03:00.610 --> 01:03:09.090
MARIA: I mean, animals obviously a chaos muppet, but like Ernie is a chaos muppet, where Bert is an order muppet, and everybody has a little bit of chaos.

01:03:09.110 --> 01:03:10.930
MARIA: Like Piggy is a chaos muppet.

01:03:11.050 --> 01:03:12.630
MARIA: Kermie is an order muppet.

01:03:12.730 --> 01:03:13.110
MARIA: Yes.

01:03:13.130 --> 01:03:13.390
VIRGINIA: Right.

01:03:14.910 --> 01:03:15.310
MARIA: Yes.

01:03:15.850 --> 01:03:19.230
MARIA: So I think I am very much an order muppet.

01:03:19.490 --> 01:03:21.470
MARIA: Where Chrissy is a chaos muppet.

01:03:21.710 --> 01:03:22.390
VIRGINIA: I'm a Kermit.

01:03:22.910 --> 01:03:23.530
VIRGINIA: I will admit it.

01:03:24.390 --> 01:03:24.670
MARIA: Yeah.

01:03:24.970 --> 01:03:26.230
MARIA: Virginia, this is why we're friends.

01:03:29.110 --> 01:03:30.310
CHRISSY: Now, my travel tendencies.

01:03:30.390 --> 01:03:39.250
CHRISSY: I once walked down the stairs of a 523 Amtrak train at 520.

01:03:39.430 --> 01:03:44.370
CHRISSY: That was not necessarily my fault, but I don't like waiting in places.

01:03:44.390 --> 01:03:49.930
CHRISSY: So I've got it down to a science, but yes, I am a little bit of a chaos muppet when I travel.

01:03:49.950 --> 01:03:51.570
CHRISSY: My coworkers judge me for it all the time.

01:03:51.870 --> 01:03:54.610
VIRGINIA: So let's do a little backwards math here.

01:03:54.630 --> 01:03:56.810
VIRGINIA: The first flight leaves at 6.50.

01:03:56.830 --> 01:04:00.250
VIRGINIA: What time do we need to leave Disney property to make a 6.50 flight?

01:04:00.970 --> 01:04:03.150
MARIA: Well, let's figure out what time do you want to get to the airport?

01:04:03.530 --> 01:04:11.010
VIRGINIA: So I would say boarding will probably begin for a 6.50 flight at about 6.30, 6.20.

01:04:11.630 --> 01:04:12.750
VIRGINIA: 6.20, I would say.

01:04:12.970 --> 01:04:15.110
CHRISSY: Probably around five, no later than five.

01:04:15.130 --> 01:04:28.150
MARIA: I think probably get to the airport at five, which means I would want to be leaving Pop by like 4.15 to be safe, which means we would probably need to leave Grand Floridian at 3.30 to 3.45.

01:04:28.770 --> 01:04:35.510
VIRGINIA: I would say just to allow for anything else, I would say, why don't you aim for 3?

01:04:36.050 --> 01:04:38.850
VIRGINIA: Knowing that you have that flexibility, you'd probably like 3.45.

01:04:39.010 --> 01:04:41.490
VIRGINIA: So you have a little cushion here.

01:04:41.510 --> 01:04:42.410
VIRGINIA: What time is your pedicure?

01:04:42.430 --> 01:04:43.550
MARIA: 10.30.

01:04:43.570 --> 01:04:44.930
CHRISSY: Oh, it's like 10.30 in the morning.

01:04:44.950 --> 01:04:46.110
CHRISSY: We have plenty of time.

01:04:46.130 --> 01:04:46.470
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:04:46.690 --> 01:04:47.770
CHRISSY: Yeah, no, I made it early.

01:04:48.370 --> 01:04:49.730
CHRISSY: Early, but not too early.

01:04:49.730 --> 01:04:51.550
CHRISSY: So if we need to have a bit of a lie in, we can.

01:04:51.930 --> 01:04:52.310
VIRGINIA: Nice.

01:04:52.550 --> 01:04:54.170
VIRGINIA: What are your breakfast plans for that day?

01:04:56.630 --> 01:05:03.950
MARIA: So I think on the website for the spa, said that they want you to be there a half an hour before your appointment time.

01:05:03.970 --> 01:05:19.430
MARIA: So if we need to be there at 10, I think we got to figure out then how early we're going to leave the hotel to get our stuff to Bell Services, and then are we going to take a bus over to Magic Kingdom, and then walk or just take a lift.

01:05:19.550 --> 01:05:36.010
MARIA: So I don't know if it may just be like grab and go, because I think it depends on how tired we are from the night before of if we want to try to do a quick service breakfast at Grand Floridian or the food court at Pop.

01:05:36.430 --> 01:05:37.150
VIRGINIA: Play it by ear.

01:05:37.670 --> 01:05:38.090
VIRGINIA: All right.

01:05:38.090 --> 01:05:42.930
VIRGINIA: Well, this sounds like a wonderful annual sister trip for the two of you.

01:05:42.950 --> 01:05:45.010
VIRGINIA: I can't wait to hear how it all goes.

01:05:46.770 --> 01:05:51.290
VIRGINIA: And so excited that Chrissy finally made it onto the podcast.

01:05:51.310 --> 01:05:53.710
VIRGINIA: I've been itching to get her on here.

01:05:54.350 --> 01:06:00.270
VIRGINIA: So thank you both for sharing all the plans, and we will talk very soon to hear how it all works.

01:06:00.290 --> 01:06:00.970
MARIA: Thanks, Virginia.

01:06:01.050 --> 01:06:01.670
MARIA: Sounds good.

01:06:01.690 --> 01:06:02.450
MARIA: Thanks for having us.

01:06:03.990 --> 01:06:05.650
VIRGINIA: Thank you again to Maria and Chrissy.

01:06:06.110 --> 01:06:09.570
VIRGINIA: Their post-trip interview is live and ready for you now.

01:06:09.990 --> 01:06:14.910
VIRGINIA: And with that, I hope you'll all keep daydreaming about where you long to be.