Stand-Alone Trip Report: Virginia’s Impromptu Twosome Trip (July 2024)

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VIRGINIA: Hello, everyone.

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VIRGINIA: Today is Monday, September 30th, and I wanted to take a minute or two to acknowledge the devastation that many people in the Southeast have felt from Hurricane Helene.

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VIRGINIA: I'm especially thinking today of my hometown of Hendersonville, North Carolina, where I grew up, and all of our neighbors in the surrounding counties, which include places like Asheville and Brevard, which you may have seen a lot of footage from on the news, because the devastation there is just absolutely heartbreaking.

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VIRGINIA: My family is all physically okay, although I do have an aunt whose home is likely destroyed.

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VIRGINIA: Because of the lack of power, I haven't actually gotten to speak with her yet myself, but please do keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

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VIRGINIA: I also have a dear old friend, the daughter of my late mother's best friend, who I basically known her whole life.

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VIRGINIA: I think six or seven huge trees fell in her house and it's completely crushed.

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VIRGINIA: She and her husband and their two kids will have to start from scratch.

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VIRGINIA: Her sister started to go fund me for her.

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VIRGINIA: If you have the means to help, whether it's $5 or $10, no donation is too small or too large and it would mean a lot to me.

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VIRGINIA: That link will be in the show notes.

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VIRGINIA: If you aren't able to help, I totally understand and I ask that you just take a moment right now while you're hearing this and send some good energy in the direction of Western North Carolina.

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VIRGINIA: Thank you and now on with the show.

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

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

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VIRGINIA: Today, I don't actually have a guest.

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VIRGINIA: You'll be hearing all of the details of our spontaneous July trip.

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VIRGINIA: There's also no pre-trip report because we had absolutely no idea we'd be going until literally the day before the trip, which you'll hear all about in a minute.

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VIRGINIA: So stick around until the end of the episode and you'll get to hear a little bit of a bonus interview with my husband Charles, who's never been on the show before.

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VIRGINIA: So now, without further ado, here's, well, me.

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VIRGINIA: Welcome to a standalone post-trip report for my impromptu July 2024 trip to Walt Disney World with my husband Charles.

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VIRGINIA: I did not expect to be going to Disney in July at all.

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VIRGINIA: I was just there in early June with Alex for our mother-son trip.

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VIRGINIA: Our next trip that we have coming up is not until February, unless we make it down with our annual passes at some point before then.

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VIRGINIA: But the one that is currently on the books is for February.

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VIRGINIA: It's our annual President's trip.

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VIRGINIA: Do I think I'll make it down there one more time before then?

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VIRGINIA: The odds are good.

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VIRGINIA: The odds are ever in my favor considering I have an annual pass.

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VIRGINIA: But this trip was totally unexpected.

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VIRGINIA: So just wanted to do a little trip report to explain everything that we did and how it happened.

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VIRGINIA: So it really all rolled out on Wednesday, and that was July the 17th when my husband Charles texted me while I was at work.

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VIRGINIA: I was at work in person that day, saying how much he wanted to go to Hollywood studios.

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VIRGINIA: So he had Thursday the 18th and Friday the 19th off because he had some days he needed to use.

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VIRGINIA: So he had taken those random two days to make a long weekend for himself, but he had not planned anything to do that weekend.

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VIRGINIA: It was just an open long weekend for him.

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VIRGINIA: So when he said that, I was like, oh gosh, you don't have to twist my arm really.

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VIRGINIA: So if you're serious about this, let's talk about it when I get home.

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VIRGINIA: So I got home and he was serious about it.

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VIRGINIA: And so I said, all right, let me hop on the computer and see what I can see there.

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VIRGINIA: Because I work remotely on Friday anyway.

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VIRGINIA: And so we thought if we can find a good price on a flight or something, then we could go down on Thursday.

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VIRGINIA: I could go down after work because I had to work in person on Thursday the 18th, but I could fly out that evening and then work remotely on Friday.

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VIRGINIA: And then we could just have a nice weekend.

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VIRGINIA: But because he was off, he could go separately and actually have a little bit more time.

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VIRGINIA: And this is really odd for him.

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VIRGINIA: Like he enjoys going to Disney once a year.

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VIRGINIA: He rarely wants to go more than once a year.

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VIRGINIA: He usually ends up going a second time just because of our annual passes.

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VIRGINIA: Or, you know, I think he's one of those people that says, you know, oh, I just want to go once a year.

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VIRGINIA: But every couple months or so, he will say something like, oh, I really wish we were in Disney this weekend or something like that.

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VIRGINIA: So I think he really likes it a lot more than he says he does.

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VIRGINIA: And I will try to convince him to maybe come on and record a few minutes that I'll tag on to the end of this just to give his own perspective.

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VIRGINIA: But anyway, I started looking into it.

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VIRGINIA: And based on our airline miles, he had United miles that he was able to use.

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VIRGINIA: And then I had miles through my Chase Sapphire card that I was able to use.

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VIRGINIA: And so he went ahead and booked himself a first thing in the morning flight out of Newark because that is United's home base.

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VIRGINIA: So he had decided that that would be fine for him just so he could leave earlier.

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VIRGINIA: And I booked a flight for Thursday after work.

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VIRGINIA: And the flights that I got with my miles were not the same airline going down and back.

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VIRGINIA: So going down, I was on Delta and going back, I was going to be on JetBlue.

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VIRGINIA: And I really just picked the ones that had the times that worked the best for me.

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VIRGINIA: So I really wasn't trying to be precious about sticking with the same airline or anything like that since it was through miles.

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VIRGINIA: And that actually ended up working out my favor.

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VIRGINIA: So then after we saw that we could get the flights, the next step was where were we going to stay?

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VIRGINIA: Because I felt sure that I could get a room at one of the All Stars or POP or something like that at a reasonable price.

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VIRGINIA: And so I looked into that and there was a room at POP available.

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VIRGINIA: And so I said, how's POP?

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VIRGINIA: He said, fine.

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VIRGINIA: And then I was looking a little further and I realized that based on the annual pass holder discounts that they had, that I was able to get a room at Port Orleans French Quarter for not that much more.

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VIRGINIA: And if you know anything about Charles, he loves French Quarter.

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VIRGINIA: In fact, after this trip, he was like, I really think French Quarter is my absolute favorite resort of any of the Disney resorts.

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VIRGINIA: So that's saying a lot.

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VIRGINIA: And I think part of it is based on the fact that he loves visiting real New Orleans, New Orleans in real life.

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VIRGINIA: But also, he's just, he's the biggest music fan, audiophile I know.

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VIRGINIA: Like he will pretty much go see any kind of music.

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VIRGINIA: One of his favorite activities is to go to concerts, to go to clubs, to hear music, that sort of thing.

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VIRGINIA: He just, he loves it.

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VIRGINIA: It is his passion.

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VIRGINIA: That's not what he does for a living, but it's his passion to go and see music.

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VIRGINIA: And so he loves the resort for that.

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VIRGINIA: So when I said the price difference, which I'm not really remembering exactly what the price difference was.

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VIRGINIA: Actually, let me look back at my, I was going to say, let me look back at my notes and say the exact price difference, but we were talking in person about it.

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VIRGINIA: So anyway, when the price difference wasn't that much anyway, he lit up.

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VIRGINIA: So he was so excited and said, Book it.

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VIRGINIA: So he flew out the next morning.

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VIRGINIA: He spent most of Thursday, the 18th, hanging out by the pool at French Quarter and then eventually made his way over to Epcot.

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VIRGINIA: I don't think he really did much of anything except for hang out in Mexico.

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VIRGINIA: He went to La Cava, he did a tequila tasting there and just was picking the person's brains about tequila and learning all about that, and was just so excited about what he was learning, and just had a great time, and it was just him at La Cava talking to his server.

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VIRGINIA: Picking it up from my side of things, like I said, I worked in person on Thursday, so I was there at work right up until 5, but I was in a meeting actually that was going right up until 5, and I was like, I have to leave right at 5 today.

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VIRGINIA: I didn't say why I had to leave right at 5, but it was because I had booked a flight that left at 8 o'clock.

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VIRGINIA: That gave me enough time to take the subway home, grab my bag that I had already packed, and then make my way over to LaGuardia to catch my 8 o'clock flight.

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VIRGINIA: By the time I got home from work to grab my stuff, the flight had already been delayed until about 9.20, so more than an hour late.

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VIRGINIA: By the time we ended up actually leaving, it was probably closer to 10.30, so there were some significant delays.

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VIRGINIA: So I landed at about 12.15, and I immediately went over into the main building to get myself together and call a lift.

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VIRGINIA: And when I called that lift, I think it was based on the time of night that it was, the shortest wait was 18 minutes.

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VIRGINIA: So that was pretty significant.

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VIRGINIA: I toyed with the idea of booking myself a Mirrors earlier that day just so that I would ride the bus over, but then I thought, it's going to be late at night.

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VIRGINIA: I don't know that I want to chance having to go to other resorts before I get to mine.

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VIRGINIA: I probably would have gotten there in about the same amount of time based on how long it took me with the lift, but whatever.

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VIRGINIA: So anyway, I called the lift, I waited, and then there ended up being a ton of road construction that they were doing at night.

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VIRGINIA: And so there were lots of detours that needed to be taken, that were not showing up in the lift drivers map.

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VIRGINIA: So he would try to go one way only to realize that we weren't able to go that way.

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VIRGINIA: So we ended up having to take back roads to get over to French Quarter.

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VIRGINIA: It really took a long time.

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VIRGINIA: I think by the time I arrived at French Quarter, it was like 2 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: So that tells you if I landed at 12, 15, it doesn't take that long to get over to the main building and whatever.

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VIRGINIA: But with the weight for the lift and all these detours, it was at least 2 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: by the time I got there, which is why I say if I had taken mirrors, perhaps it would have been better because maybe mirrors would have been aware of the detours that needed to be taken and would have been able to more easily get around that, because we did a lot of looping back on ourselves because of the detours.

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VIRGINIA: So by the time I got into the room and got my stuff settled because I need my stuff to be organized, and of course I walk in and Charles' stuff is not organized.

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VIRGINIA: We are complete opposites in that way.

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VIRGINIA: So I start organizing his stuff a little bit, organizing my stuff.

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VIRGINIA: By the time I got into bed, fully ready for bed, my face wash, my teeth brushed, all of that, it was almost 3 o'clock in the morning, and I had to work the next day.

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VIRGINIA: But luckily, because I was working remotely, I technically, I needed to be on my computer at 9 a.m., but that means, depending on what I wanted to get done before I had to be on my computer at 9 a.m., which I did have a meeting at 9 a.m., so I needed to be up in enough time to look presentable for my Zoom meeting.

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VIRGINIA: But I could have slept right up until the very last second if I wanted to, but I really wanted to grab a Disney breakfast because if I was going to be working remotely from Disney, then I wanted to be having my Disney breakfast and really feel like I was in the magic even without any sleep.

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VIRGINIA: So I got up at 8 o'clock, got dressed, got ready for work.

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VIRGINIA: I ran over to the Sasa Gula Floatworks quick service, and I grabbed some coffee with my refillable mug that Charles had already purchased for me, and I grabbed a bounty platter, and I was locked in for my 9 a.m.

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VIRGINIA: meeting on time, looking presentable and enjoying some potato barrels and a Mickey Waffle.

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VIRGINIA: At which point, my colleague who actually does listen to the podcast sometimes and follows on Instagram was like, I know where you are now.

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VIRGINIA: I had to confess.

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VIRGINIA: I was like, yeah, that's why I had to get out of the office right at five, which normally I am not somebody who's like, I have to leave right at five.

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VIRGINIA: I finish what I need to finish when I finish it.

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VIRGINIA: Anyway, so I did my meeting after my meeting was over, and I had some work time where I did not need to be on a Zoom.

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VIRGINIA: I took my laptop and I went and I found a nice outdoor table sort of near the gift shop there because they have some overhead fans.

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VIRGINIA: It was early enough in the morning that it wasn't super, super hot yet when it was hot, but it wasn't super, super hot.

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VIRGINIA: And I was like, I want to work outside in whatever hours I can enjoy being outside.

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VIRGINIA: So I set myself up with my laptop there and I had brought my second screen with me because I have like a portable travel second screen, but what I didn't realize was I brought the wrong cord.

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VIRGINIA: So I was limited to my tiny little laptop screen, which was annoying, but fine.

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VIRGINIA: Because you know what?

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VIRGINIA: I was working in Disney.

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VIRGINIA: So that was just fine with me.

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VIRGINIA: So I sat there and worked until it was time for me to have my lunch.

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VIRGINIA: And so I decided that during my lunch break, because I had been sitting outside and I was quite warm by that point, that I would use my lunch break and hop in the pool.

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VIRGINIA: So I went and changed into my swimsuit.

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VIRGINIA: I went out to the pool.

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VIRGINIA: I thought Charles would still be out at the pool, but he was kind of tired.

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VIRGINIA: And so he decided that he would go back and take a nap in the room, and he looked like he needed it.

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VIRGINIA: He had been outside most of the morning and the heat was getting to him.

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VIRGINIA: So I was like, just go back and take a nap.

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VIRGINIA: That's fine.

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VIRGINIA: So I ended up staying in the pool for like 30 minutes, which was really nice.

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VIRGINIA: And then I, on my way back from the pool, stopped over at the quick service and got some lunch to bring back to the room, to just eat in the room and get set up for my afternoon where I had some meetings.

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VIRGINIA: And I decided I would just do all my working for the remainder of the day from the room.

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VIRGINIA: Since it was air-conditioned, it was quiet, and I had multiple Zoom meetings I had to attend.

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VIRGINIA: After all of that was finished and I was able to log off for the day, Charles and I headed to Epcot.

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VIRGINIA: We actually, we had an individual lightning lane for Guardians of the Galaxy that I had paid for earlier in the day.

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VIRGINIA: When I had gotten up at 8 o'clock, I had gone ahead and paid for that individual lightning lane.

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VIRGINIA: But by the time we got to Epcot to ride that, it was down.

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VIRGINIA: Also, at some point during the day, Charles had said to me how nice it would be if we ate at Beer Garden.

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VIRGINIA: So I was like, okay, let me grab a Beer Garden reservation.

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VIRGINIA: So I had that booked for dinner.

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VIRGINIA: So Guardians was down when we arrived.

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VIRGINIA: We still had a little time to kill before our Beer Garden dinner reservation.

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VIRGINIA: So we ended up going over into Mexico because Charles wanted to get that tequila that he had gotten the night before.

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VIRGINIA: And I, of course, wanted to get my avocado margarita.

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VIRGINIA: He was able to tell me tequila facts and we had a nice time.

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VIRGINIA: We were there for probably, I don't know, 45 minutes.

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VIRGINIA: And then we headed over to Beer Garden for dinner.

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VIRGINIA: Beer Garden is always good.

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VIRGINIA: We always enjoy it.

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VIRGINIA: The entertainment is good.

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VIRGINIA: The food is good.

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VIRGINIA: I would say my favorite things on the buffet at Beer Garden are all of the sides.

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VIRGINIA: I am a sides girl.

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VIRGINIA: I love the potato salad.

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VIRGINIA: I love the cold slaw.

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VIRGINIA: I love all of those little things.

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VIRGINIA: I like the beer cheese soup.

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VIRGINIA: I love the sides.

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VIRGINIA: So I primarily ate sides for dinner.

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VIRGINIA: It was delicious.

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VIRGINIA: We had a great time.

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VIRGINIA: It had been, I'm trying to think, when was the last time we went to Beer Garden?

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VIRGINIA: It had been maybe like two years since we had been to Beer Garden.

00:17:20.742 --> 00:17:22.662
VIRGINIA: Maybe, maybe it was only a year.

00:17:22.662 --> 00:17:24.962
VIRGINIA: I'm not sure, but we had a great time.

00:17:24.962 --> 00:17:31.062
VIRGINIA: After dinner, we noticed on the app that Guardians of the Galaxy was still down.

00:17:31.062 --> 00:17:38.342
VIRGINIA: We started walking towards the front of the park and had said, okay, we're going to ride Spaceship Earth and then head out for the night.

00:17:38.342 --> 00:17:47.322
VIRGINIA: Because Charles, being the music lover he is, was really itching to get over to Scat Cats to enjoy some jazz at the end of the day.

00:17:47.322 --> 00:18:02.322
VIRGINIA: This trip, because it was initiated by him, was like I was catering to the things he really was interested in doing so that he could have a fantastic long weekend because he's been working so hard lately.

00:18:02.322 --> 00:18:07.762
VIRGINIA: I mean, he always works hard, but his work has been particularly busy and stressful lately.

00:18:07.762 --> 00:18:13.162
VIRGINIA: And so it was really important to me that he had a wonderful weekend.

00:18:13.162 --> 00:18:17.042
VIRGINIA: As we're walking, we noticed that Guardians came back up.

00:18:17.042 --> 00:18:21.442
VIRGINIA: What I did not know really was that it had been down pretty much all day.

00:18:21.442 --> 00:18:29.562
VIRGINIA: So we start seeing people running towards the ride and I said, Oh, this is not looking good.

00:18:29.562 --> 00:18:34.382
VIRGINIA: So we walked up and the line for the Lightning Lane was really long.

00:18:34.382 --> 00:18:44.242
VIRGINIA: And so I walked up to the front of it and just asked the cast member, if you had to estimate how long this line is at this point, what do you think?

00:18:44.242 --> 00:18:46.482
VIRGINIA: And they said probably at least 40 minutes.

00:18:46.482 --> 00:18:47.622
VIRGINIA: It was late in the day.

00:18:47.622 --> 00:18:49.242
VIRGINIA: He really wanted to go to Scott Katz.

00:18:49.242 --> 00:18:50.362
VIRGINIA: And so I said, you know what?

00:18:50.802 --> 00:18:52.122
VIRGINIA: We'll just try again tomorrow.

00:18:52.122 --> 00:18:52.702
VIRGINIA: That's fine.

00:18:53.402 --> 00:19:01.902
VIRGINIA: So we stopped at Guest Services on our way around heading towards Spaceship Earth and popped in there.

00:19:01.902 --> 00:19:03.382
VIRGINIA: And I just said, you know, is it possible?

00:19:03.382 --> 00:19:04.882
VIRGINIA: Can we just get a refund for this?

00:19:04.882 --> 00:19:06.622
VIRGINIA: Because it just reopened.

00:19:06.622 --> 00:19:11.082
VIRGINIA: We're ready to leave and we're just not going to bother with it today.

00:19:11.102 --> 00:19:20.702
VIRGINIA: And the cast member that was there was very helpful and just said, you know, would you have another chance to use it while you're in town?

00:19:20.702 --> 00:19:22.322
VIRGINIA: And I said, well, we're coming back tomorrow.

00:19:22.862 --> 00:19:23.742
VIRGINIA: So yes.

00:19:23.742 --> 00:19:26.642
VIRGINIA: And she said, I can just move it to tomorrow if you want.

00:19:26.642 --> 00:19:35.482
VIRGINIA: And I said, will that be, you know, time restrictive or will we be able to use it just basically at any time?

00:19:35.482 --> 00:19:38.242
VIRGINIA: And she was like, oh, you can just use it anytime tomorrow.

00:19:38.242 --> 00:19:46.302
VIRGINIA: And so that was absolutely perfect because then we knew we were going to get to write it and we could really just write it whenever we wanted to.

00:19:46.302 --> 00:19:48.942
VIRGINIA: We wrote Spaceship Earth just to say we had written one thing.

00:19:49.542 --> 00:19:59.862
VIRGINIA: And incidentally, I cannot remember the last time I wrote Spaceship Earth sitting next to Charles because normally Alex and I ride together or Alex rides with Charles, so I ride by myself.

00:19:59.862 --> 00:20:02.982
VIRGINIA: But we hardly ever get to ride together.

00:20:02.982 --> 00:20:04.982
VIRGINIA: So we did that.

00:20:04.982 --> 00:20:07.762
VIRGINIA: Our pictures were not great on the ride.

00:20:07.762 --> 00:20:09.442
VIRGINIA: I don't think it even captured his face.

00:20:09.442 --> 00:20:14.802
VIRGINIA: I took a screenshot of it, but it was just kind of not great.

00:20:14.802 --> 00:20:16.702
VIRGINIA: But we had a good time.

00:20:17.122 --> 00:20:18.422
VIRGINIA: It was fun to write that together.

00:20:18.922 --> 00:20:27.082
VIRGINIA: So then we ended up hopping on a bus and going back to French Quarter, and we had some drinks, scat cats.

00:20:27.102 --> 00:20:32.442
VIRGINIA: And I ended up getting a chocolate martini, which I never get a chocolate martini.

00:20:32.442 --> 00:20:34.142
VIRGINIA: I love a chocolate martini.

00:20:35.162 --> 00:20:46.662
VIRGINIA: I'm not usually somebody who wants a sweet drink, but I knew we were going to get an order of beignets, and I thought a chocolate martini sounds like the perfect accompaniment to a beignet.

00:20:46.662 --> 00:20:48.222
VIRGINIA: So that is what we got.

00:20:48.322 --> 00:20:50.102
VIRGINIA: We split the beignets.

00:20:50.102 --> 00:21:00.022
VIRGINIA: Charles ended up getting some zero-proof, no-alcohol cocktail because he had already had plenty of alcohol the day before at La Cava.

00:21:00.022 --> 00:21:02.502
VIRGINIA: He was like, I'm just going to get a non-alcoholic drink.

00:21:02.502 --> 00:21:03.742
VIRGINIA: It was actually really good.

00:21:03.742 --> 00:21:10.402
VIRGINIA: I can't remember what it was, but it was botanical flavored, I think.

00:21:10.402 --> 00:21:11.422
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:21:11.422 --> 00:21:14.862
VIRGINIA: But he enjoyed it, and I enjoyed my chocolate martini.

00:21:14.862 --> 00:21:20.382
VIRGINIA: After that, it had been a long day, so we were back in the room by 10.30.

00:21:20.382 --> 00:21:23.662
VIRGINIA: We both got showers and went straight to bed.

00:21:24.442 --> 00:21:34.762
VIRGINIA: The funny thing I should note about the beds is that this room had two queen beds, which normally, when we're staying in a room with two queen beds, we have Alex with us.

00:21:34.762 --> 00:21:37.662
VIRGINIA: Alex is in one bed, and then we're in another bed.

00:21:37.662 --> 00:21:50.922
VIRGINIA: But when you have two queen beds like that, there is one side of the bed that is kind of against the wall and is really the less desirable side to be on, right?

00:21:50.922 --> 00:22:01.002
VIRGINIA: And then in the other queen bed, there's one side that's by the door and is also less desirable because it's just a drop off to empty space.

00:22:01.002 --> 00:22:04.842
VIRGINIA: So we both really wanted to have the bedside table.

00:22:04.842 --> 00:22:11.402
VIRGINIA: He had already taken one of the beds and was on the side of it with the bedside table so he could have his things right next to him.

00:22:12.262 --> 00:22:16.082
VIRGINIA: And I said, I really want access to the bedside table too.

00:22:16.082 --> 00:22:23.742
VIRGINIA: So either you are going to switch to the other side of the bed or I'm just going to sleep in the other bed because it's only for a couple nights.

00:22:23.742 --> 00:22:24.642
VIRGINIA: Do you care?

00:22:24.642 --> 00:22:31.622
VIRGINIA: And he was like, looked at me kind of funny at first and then he was like, no, that's fine because I really want the bedside table too.

00:22:31.622 --> 00:22:33.162
VIRGINIA: So we thought it was funny.

00:22:33.162 --> 00:22:37.802
VIRGINIA: It was sort of like we were like, I love Lucy sleeping in our two separate beds.

00:22:37.802 --> 00:22:38.982
VIRGINIA: But you know what?

00:22:38.982 --> 00:22:39.702
VIRGINIA: We were both happy.

00:22:39.822 --> 00:22:43.002
VIRGINIA: We both got to spread out and have as much space as we wanted.

00:22:43.002 --> 00:22:44.522
VIRGINIA: And we both had a bedside table.

00:22:44.522 --> 00:22:46.422
VIRGINIA: So win, win.

00:22:46.422 --> 00:22:54.722
VIRGINIA: The next morning, I really wanted to get some part-time in because it was my one full day at a park.

00:22:54.722 --> 00:22:57.242
VIRGINIA: And Charles was really interested in going back to the pool.

00:22:57.242 --> 00:23:00.402
VIRGINIA: He just really wanted to have a lot of pool time on this trip.

00:23:00.402 --> 00:23:08.602
VIRGINIA: So I said, I'm going to go to Epcot for the morning and then I'll come back at lunchtime to meet you at the pool.

00:23:09.462 --> 00:23:11.222
VIRGINIA: So I headed off to Epcot.

00:23:11.242 --> 00:23:14.622
VIRGINIA: I managed to get there at 8.40.

00:23:14.622 --> 00:23:16.482
VIRGINIA: I made a note of that.

00:23:16.482 --> 00:23:23.062
VIRGINIA: And I immediately went and got an iced chai espresso latte at the Joffreys.

00:23:23.062 --> 00:23:27.662
VIRGINIA: That is right outside the ticket turnstile thing.

00:23:27.662 --> 00:23:28.922
VIRGINIA: Well, they're not turnstiles anymore.

00:23:28.922 --> 00:23:33.702
VIRGINIA: They're right outside where you scan in, right by the monorail, I should say.

00:23:33.702 --> 00:23:46.142
VIRGINIA: So I got that there because I needed my caffeine and I began the trek back to France because I didn't know what I was going to get, but I was like, I'm eating breakfast in France.

00:23:46.142 --> 00:23:52.302
VIRGINIA: If I'm going to eat breakfast somewhere in this park, it's going to be at the patisserie.

00:23:52.302 --> 00:23:53.842
VIRGINIA: So I headed back there.

00:23:53.842 --> 00:23:58.222
VIRGINIA: I ended up getting an almond croissant, which was delicious.

00:23:58.222 --> 00:24:04.882
VIRGINIA: They cannot do wrong when it comes to anything there, really, but particularly the croissants.

00:24:05.522 --> 00:24:12.482
VIRGINIA: The only thing that I was surprised by with the almond croissant is that there was a little bit of chocolate in the center and I was not expecting that.

00:24:12.482 --> 00:24:14.702
VIRGINIA: I don't know that it would have changed.

00:24:14.702 --> 00:24:22.702
VIRGINIA: Well, it might have changed my mind about ordering that from the beginning because if you told me there was chocolate in it, I would have assumed it was a significant chocolate flavor.

00:24:22.702 --> 00:24:23.822
VIRGINIA: There was chocolate in this.

00:24:23.822 --> 00:24:26.622
VIRGINIA: It was surprising, but it wasn't an overwhelming amount.

00:24:26.622 --> 00:24:30.202
VIRGINIA: The almond part of it was really what stood out within the croissant.

00:24:30.202 --> 00:24:32.102
VIRGINIA: So that was fine.

00:24:32.102 --> 00:24:33.362
VIRGINIA: It was delicious.

00:24:33.362 --> 00:24:33.962
VIRGINIA: It was wonderful.

00:24:34.762 --> 00:24:37.362
VIRGINIA: I was just trying to have a low-key Epcot morning.

00:24:37.362 --> 00:24:41.042
VIRGINIA: I wasn't trying to run around and do a bunch of rides or anything.

00:24:41.042 --> 00:24:48.122
VIRGINIA: So I decided since I was back there anyway, that I would go ahead and do the DuckTales adventure in France.

00:24:48.122 --> 00:25:08.802
VIRGINIA: And I have to say, I was not as impressed with the one in France as I had been with the one in Germany that I had done previously with Jeanette, because the effects that were being shown, like they were in some cases hard to see or not what I expected, I guess.

00:25:08.802 --> 00:25:15.622
VIRGINIA: There was one where you were supposed to be looking at something up on a roof and I could barely see it.

00:25:15.622 --> 00:25:27.162
VIRGINIA: So anyway, I'm glad I did it, but I'm to the point now with doing these DuckTales adventures that I'm starting to rank them.

00:25:27.162 --> 00:25:33.642
VIRGINIA: And so in my mind, that is the lowest one that I have done so far is France.

00:25:33.642 --> 00:25:35.822
VIRGINIA: Germany definitely ranked above that.

00:25:35.822 --> 00:25:42.562
VIRGINIA: From there, I decided I would go ahead over into the UK and do their DuckTales because I had time.

00:25:42.562 --> 00:25:44.482
VIRGINIA: So I headed over there.

00:25:44.482 --> 00:25:53.602
VIRGINIA: While I was doing the DuckTales adventure, I ended up going in to meet Winnie the Pooh because I had never done that before, honestly.

00:25:53.722 --> 00:25:55.942
VIRGINIA: I don't think, or maybe I had with Alex.

00:25:55.942 --> 00:25:57.102
VIRGINIA: It was such a short line.

00:25:57.102 --> 00:25:59.002
VIRGINIA: I just decided to do it.

00:25:59.002 --> 00:26:10.062
VIRGINIA: But at the end of the day, I will tell you that of these three full DuckTales adventures that I have now completed in their entirety, the UK is the coolest one.

00:26:10.062 --> 00:26:19.902
VIRGINIA: Germany is really cool, but the UK is really cool because the UK has a couple of elements that the others have not had yet.

00:26:19.922 --> 00:26:27.222
VIRGINIA: One of them is it involves you needing to speak to a cast member and give a secret code.

00:26:27.222 --> 00:26:33.882
VIRGINIA: Another one involves a prop that you get in one location and then have to take it to another location.

00:26:35.222 --> 00:26:39.822
VIRGINIA: It adds an element that you don't get with the others that I really liked.

00:26:39.822 --> 00:26:41.322
VIRGINIA: It was so cool.

00:26:41.322 --> 00:26:49.242
VIRGINIA: Then I thought, well, I'm on a DuckTales adventure role, I might as well try to do the one in Canada, but surprise, they don't have one in Canada.

00:26:49.762 --> 00:26:51.002
VIRGINIA: That was disappointing.

00:26:51.002 --> 00:26:58.782
VIRGINIA: Instead, I decided it had been a while since I'd gone in to see Canada far and wide, so I went ahead in there and saw that.

00:26:58.782 --> 00:27:00.862
VIRGINIA: It was so delightful.

00:27:00.862 --> 00:27:06.622
VIRGINIA: It was just the breathtaking scenery of Canada, just can't be beat.

00:27:06.622 --> 00:27:08.482
VIRGINIA: It is gorgeous.

00:27:08.482 --> 00:27:09.442
VIRGINIA: It's the theater.

00:27:09.442 --> 00:27:20.302
VIRGINIA: I mean, it's a theater, so it's dark, but especially when you come in, and I think the opening scene that you're seeing while you wait for it to start is within the woods.

00:27:20.782 --> 00:27:30.022
VIRGINIA: And so all you see surrounding you are trees, and it just gives you this sense of peace, and it's cool in there with the air conditioning.

00:27:30.262 --> 00:27:40.402
VIRGINIA: And it just kind of like, if you were stressed out, or you were amped out or anything, I think that would really serve to kind of calm you down.

00:27:40.402 --> 00:27:48.542
VIRGINIA: So highly recommend that if you have not seen it before ever, but certainly if you have not seen it in a while, go back and see it again.

00:27:49.502 --> 00:27:55.682
VIRGINIA: Also, if it's been a really long time, it is no longer Martin Short narrating.

00:27:55.682 --> 00:27:59.142
VIRGINIA: It's Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy.

00:27:59.142 --> 00:28:06.862
VIRGINIA: And you probably know them from Schitt's Creek fame, or from many Christopher Guest movies.

00:28:06.862 --> 00:28:07.742
VIRGINIA: They do a great job.

00:28:07.742 --> 00:28:12.742
VIRGINIA: And when they're doing the narration for it, they're just really selling Canada to you.

00:28:12.742 --> 00:28:17.642
VIRGINIA: Like you walk out feeling like I should go there, you know, as soon as I can.

00:28:18.342 --> 00:28:19.962
VIRGINIA: I definitely felt that way.

00:28:19.962 --> 00:28:25.762
VIRGINIA: And you know, it has like little humorous elements to it, but it's certainly not them doing their comedy thing.

00:28:25.762 --> 00:28:34.382
VIRGINIA: They are narrating it, and you can tell through their voices and the way that they're narrating it, that is all about the love of their country.

00:28:34.382 --> 00:28:35.362
VIRGINIA: It's beautiful.

00:28:35.362 --> 00:28:37.282
VIRGINIA: It's just beautiful to see.

00:28:37.282 --> 00:28:42.442
VIRGINIA: It's beautiful to hear them speak about the place that they love so much in that way.

00:28:42.442 --> 00:28:45.382
VIRGINIA: So 10 out of 10, highly recommend.

00:28:45.422 --> 00:28:54.322
VIRGINIA: It's the only thing I would possibly maybe take it down a half a point for, but I really can't because none of the other theaters really have it either, except for Franz's.

00:28:54.322 --> 00:28:57.182
VIRGINIA: If it had seats, that would be even better.

00:28:57.182 --> 00:28:59.962
VIRGINIA: But there's not very many people in there.

00:28:59.962 --> 00:29:03.222
VIRGINIA: You could, in theory, find a spot to just sit on the floor.

00:29:03.222 --> 00:29:09.722
VIRGINIA: When I saw it, there were probably, I don't know, maybe 20 of us total in the theater watching it together.

00:29:09.722 --> 00:29:11.342
VIRGINIA: So it was great.

00:29:12.482 --> 00:29:18.102
VIRGINIA: From there, I decided that I would start heading towards the front and make my way out.

00:29:18.102 --> 00:29:29.082
VIRGINIA: But on my way there, I really wanted to stop and see the CommuniCorps Hall and check out the Meet Mickey and Friends area if there wasn't too big a line.

00:29:29.082 --> 00:29:31.862
VIRGINIA: There was not too big a line, so went ahead and hopped in that.

00:29:31.862 --> 00:29:35.702
VIRGINIA: I got to meet Mickey and Goofy and Minnie.

00:29:36.782 --> 00:29:38.422
VIRGINIA: I love the setup they have there.

00:29:38.642 --> 00:29:41.842
VIRGINIA: It was, like I said, not a very long line.

00:29:41.842 --> 00:29:43.202
VIRGINIA: It was very efficient.

00:29:43.202 --> 00:29:45.462
VIRGINIA: You get to meet three characters.

00:29:46.922 --> 00:29:51.122
VIRGINIA: It was just a really easy character meet.

00:29:51.122 --> 00:29:52.902
VIRGINIA: Definitely recommend.

00:29:52.902 --> 00:29:56.122
VIRGINIA: Then I poked my head into the area.

00:29:56.122 --> 00:30:01.702
VIRGINIA: They have an indoor section that's just basically an indoor seating section with tables and things.

00:30:01.702 --> 00:30:03.322
VIRGINIA: Just poked my head in there, looked at that.

00:30:03.322 --> 00:30:05.162
VIRGINIA: Then stood there.

00:30:06.762 --> 00:30:18.162
VIRGINIA: They were doing an encanto sing-along right there on the stage, bringing up some people from the crowd to participate and help with dancing and movements and that sort of thing.

00:30:18.162 --> 00:30:24.702
VIRGINIA: I stood for maybe five minutes and watched that before I headed on out.

00:30:24.702 --> 00:30:25.802
VIRGINIA: Went back to French Quarter.

00:30:26.122 --> 00:30:32.782
VIRGINIA: Immediately, I was going to get my lunch from the Sassagula Floatworks.

00:30:32.782 --> 00:30:43.642
VIRGINIA: I should say the day before when I had gotten lunch, I miraculously managed to order something other than shrimp and grits, even though I took note that shrimp and grits was on the menu.

00:30:43.642 --> 00:30:49.562
VIRGINIA: But I had gotten the gumbo that day because I absolutely love gumbo.

00:30:49.562 --> 00:31:00.842
VIRGINIA: I had visited New Orleans fairly recently within the past couple of years, and I had had gumbo when I was in New Orleans, and I just had to try this and find out if it was as good.

00:31:00.842 --> 00:31:03.402
VIRGINIA: And it was very good.

00:31:03.402 --> 00:31:12.762
VIRGINIA: The only thing that I should note is I got it to go, and because of the heat of the dish, it was right out of the pot.

00:31:12.762 --> 00:31:23.062
VIRGINIA: It made the plastic lid that they had put on my bowl warp as I was walking back to my room to go back to my workday with it, and so it started to spill in the bag.

00:31:23.182 --> 00:31:31.242
VIRGINIA: So I managed to make it back to the room with the bag still nearly intact, but it was a really close call.

00:31:31.242 --> 00:31:38.802
VIRGINIA: So highly recommend if you're going to get the gumbo, eat it there in person at the Sasa Gula Floatworks.

00:31:38.802 --> 00:31:48.182
VIRGINIA: So when I went back to French Quarter this day and grabbed lunch, I also decided to forgo the shrimp and grits, and part of this is because I've had their shrimp and grits before.

00:31:48.182 --> 00:31:59.742
VIRGINIA: Normally, I take every opportunity I can to have shrimp and grits, but I had had their shrimp and grits before, and so at this point, I really wanted to try the shrimp po'boy because I also love shrimp po'boy.

00:31:59.742 --> 00:32:02.122
VIRGINIA: Maybe I lived in New Orleans in a former life.

00:32:02.122 --> 00:32:05.522
VIRGINIA: I am not sure, but I just love the food from New Orleans.

00:32:05.522 --> 00:32:08.942
VIRGINIA: I got there, got my po'boy.

00:32:08.942 --> 00:32:19.182
VIRGINIA: Charles ended up meeting up with me to eat lunch there, and he was sitting there, and then I thought, we'll go get in the pool together for a while.

00:32:19.182 --> 00:32:27.482
VIRGINIA: But as he was sitting there with me, because he had already eaten lunch, so he just came in and was sitting at the table with me, I could just tell how tired he was.

00:32:27.482 --> 00:32:33.822
VIRGINIA: He had been out in the sun all morning, and he's like, I'm just not feeling 100 percent.

00:32:33.822 --> 00:32:36.982
VIRGINIA: I was like, you look exhausted.

00:32:36.982 --> 00:32:39.162
VIRGINIA: Do you think maybe you just need a nap?

00:32:39.162 --> 00:32:42.302
VIRGINIA: He was like, yeah, I think I do.

00:32:42.302 --> 00:32:47.162
VIRGINIA: I said, I just really think the sun is getting to you because you've been sitting outside.

00:32:47.162 --> 00:32:52.722
VIRGINIA: He had had a couple of drinks at the bar, but he had just been out in the heat and all of that.

00:32:52.722 --> 00:32:55.402
VIRGINIA: And he was just starting to get bags under his eyes.

00:32:55.402 --> 00:32:58.662
VIRGINIA: Anyway, he went back and he took a nap for like an hour and a half.

00:32:58.662 --> 00:33:00.742
VIRGINIA: And then he came back a new man.

00:33:00.742 --> 00:33:03.762
VIRGINIA: He was ready to do things at that point.

00:33:03.762 --> 00:33:12.242
VIRGINIA: I ate my shrimp po boy and then I went and jumped into the pool, had a good time just kind of hanging out.

00:33:12.242 --> 00:33:14.522
VIRGINIA: I would get in the pool, cool off.

00:33:14.522 --> 00:33:18.982
VIRGINIA: Then I would get back into my chair, read my Kindle.

00:33:18.982 --> 00:33:21.582
VIRGINIA: When I would get hot again, I would jump back in the pool.

00:33:21.582 --> 00:33:23.722
VIRGINIA: And it was just back and forth like that.

00:33:23.722 --> 00:33:29.042
VIRGINIA: You know, I've talked about in previous episodes about my thoughts about French Quarter and Riverside.

00:33:29.042 --> 00:33:34.462
VIRGINIA: I have come away from this trip because I've waffled back and forth on which one I like better.

00:33:34.462 --> 00:33:38.682
VIRGINIA: And I have decided that I like French Quarter better.

00:33:38.682 --> 00:33:42.222
VIRGINIA: I know I've been saying I like Riverside better for a little bit.

00:33:42.222 --> 00:33:44.282
VIRGINIA: What I like better about Riverside is their pool.

00:33:44.702 --> 00:33:47.762
VIRGINIA: And I also love that they have a sit-down restaurant in there.

00:33:47.762 --> 00:33:49.942
VIRGINIA: So, you know, it's different.

00:33:49.942 --> 00:33:54.822
VIRGINIA: But overall resort vibes, I like French Quarter better.

00:33:54.822 --> 00:33:59.682
VIRGINIA: But the pool at Riverside is just better, in my opinion.

00:33:59.682 --> 00:34:04.702
VIRGINIA: It is more exciting of a pool and it also has more tree coverage.

00:34:04.702 --> 00:34:09.182
VIRGINIA: So it is easier to find a chair that's got some shade.

00:34:09.182 --> 00:34:12.542
VIRGINIA: And that was darn near impossible at French Quarter.

00:34:12.762 --> 00:34:17.442
VIRGINIA: There are only a handful of chairs that are in the shade, and they were all taken.

00:34:17.442 --> 00:34:24.462
VIRGINIA: So anyway, hence me having to continually get into the pool because I was just getting way too hot.

00:34:24.462 --> 00:34:31.062
VIRGINIA: At one point, I had taken the towel that I had used to dry off, which was damp for me drying it off.

00:34:31.062 --> 00:34:38.322
VIRGINIA: And I was just kind of sitting there with it draped over my legs because the wet towel on my legs actually felt really good.

00:34:38.322 --> 00:34:46.642
VIRGINIA: So after my pool time and Charles waking up from his nap, or actually after my pool time, I went back to the room.

00:34:46.642 --> 00:34:50.922
VIRGINIA: I took a little nap because at that point, I was tired too.

00:34:50.922 --> 00:34:52.842
VIRGINIA: And then Charles finished up his nap.

00:34:52.842 --> 00:34:56.422
VIRGINIA: And then we headed over to Epcot together.

00:34:56.422 --> 00:35:00.882
VIRGINIA: So when we got over to Epcot, Guardians of the Galaxy was up and running.

00:35:00.882 --> 00:35:07.622
VIRGINIA: So we went ahead and wrote it first thing, even though we could have really written it whenever we wanted.

00:35:07.622 --> 00:35:19.422
VIRGINIA: But we got my least favorite song, I Ran, but I will take, I ran any day of the week, as long as I get to ride that ride, because it is my absolute favorite ride.

00:35:19.422 --> 00:35:21.902
VIRGINIA: So would I have rather gotten another song?

00:35:21.902 --> 00:35:22.442
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:35:22.442 --> 00:35:23.902
VIRGINIA: But you know what?

00:35:23.902 --> 00:35:24.842
VIRGINIA: I got to ride it.

00:35:24.842 --> 00:35:33.022
VIRGINIA: And I am so, so happy and grateful that I had the opportunity to ride it during the month of July because I was not expecting that.

00:35:33.022 --> 00:35:38.602
VIRGINIA: After writing Guardians of the Galaxy, we were needing a little bit of a snack.

00:35:38.802 --> 00:35:49.142
VIRGINIA: We had dinner reservations that night for Brown Derby, but we ended up deciding to stop at the Festival Favorites Window, which is right by Communicore Hall.

00:35:49.142 --> 00:35:51.302
VIRGINIA: And we split an Arepa.

00:35:51.302 --> 00:35:51.902
VIRGINIA: An Arepa?

00:35:51.902 --> 00:35:52.402
VIRGINIA: Arepa?

00:35:52.402 --> 00:35:56.202
VIRGINIA: I don't know how you say that exactly, but we split one of those.

00:35:56.802 --> 00:36:01.282
VIRGINIA: It was good, it was small, so it was perfect to split for a snack.

00:36:01.282 --> 00:36:06.782
VIRGINIA: And then we were heading over to Hollywood Studios because, like I said, we had that Brown Derby reservation.

00:36:06.902 --> 00:36:20.222
VIRGINIA: Now, at some point during the day, my friends Miranda and Corey, who are Bippity Boppity Benfields, noticed that I was posting from Disney and they were like, hey, we're getting off of Disney Cruise.

00:36:20.222 --> 00:36:24.802
VIRGINIA: So we were going to overlap with our time there a little bit.

00:36:24.802 --> 00:36:30.342
VIRGINIA: So I said, I have a Brown Derby reservation, and I just was able to bump it up to four people.

00:36:30.342 --> 00:36:33.702
VIRGINIA: If you want to come and meet us there for that, no pressure.

00:36:34.822 --> 00:36:40.122
VIRGINIA: They were up for it, and so we were like, great, we'll meet at Hollywood Studios at the time of the reservation.

00:36:40.122 --> 00:36:42.042
VIRGINIA: So that was perfect.

00:36:42.042 --> 00:36:47.862
VIRGINIA: Was really excited for that because Miranda and Corey and I have interviewed multiple times and we've never met in person before.

00:36:47.862 --> 00:36:59.402
VIRGINIA: So to get over to Hollywood Studios, normally from Epcot, I would have taken the Skyliner, but it was thundering and lightning, and they had not shut it down yet.

00:36:59.402 --> 00:37:08.322
VIRGINIA: But my fear was they were going to shut it down while we were in it, and then I was going to be stuck in the air until they released us, and I did not want that to happen.

00:37:08.322 --> 00:37:09.322
VIRGINIA: So I was like, you know what?

00:37:09.322 --> 00:37:15.402
VIRGINIA: It's not that far a walk anyway, and I could get some steps in, that's fine.

00:37:15.402 --> 00:37:17.342
VIRGINIA: So let's just walk.

00:37:17.342 --> 00:37:18.602
VIRGINIA: So that's what we ended up doing.

00:37:18.602 --> 00:37:22.782
VIRGINIA: We walked over to Hollywood Studios from Epcot.

00:37:22.782 --> 00:37:33.442
VIRGINIA: At Brown Derby, we met up with Miranda and Corey, and it was so great to meet them and have hugs and sit down and share a meal together.

00:37:33.442 --> 00:37:41.322
VIRGINIA: So Charles and I both ended up getting a filet mignon, and then Miranda and Corey had the Cobb salad, of course.

00:37:41.322 --> 00:37:59.482
VIRGINIA: So after dinner at Brown Derby, that was really all we were there to do in that particular park, which is really funny considering the fact that the whole reason we had this long weekend trip spontaneously happen was because Charles was like, I would really like to be hanging out in Hollywood Studios this weekend.

00:37:59.582 --> 00:38:05.322
VIRGINIA: And then this is like we literally went in, had dinner at Brown Derby, and then we're done with Hollywood Studios.

00:38:05.322 --> 00:38:07.082
VIRGINIA: So that was kind of funny.

00:38:07.082 --> 00:38:10.782
VIRGINIA: But anyway, dinner was lovely.

00:38:10.782 --> 00:38:17.162
VIRGINIA: As soon as dinner was over, we took a couple of pictures together on Hollywood Boulevard, which was fun.

00:38:17.162 --> 00:38:29.402
VIRGINIA: And then we said our goodbyes and Charles and I headed back to French Quarter where we took our showers because it's summer in Disney, and snuggled up into bed to watch a little bit.

00:38:29.442 --> 00:38:35.582
VIRGINIA: We watched the TV and discovered that pillow fighting is a sport.

00:38:35.582 --> 00:38:42.142
VIRGINIA: And that was my never stop learning moment because I thought it was a joke, but it was not.

00:38:42.142 --> 00:38:43.842
VIRGINIA: It was on ESPN.

00:38:43.842 --> 00:38:55.322
VIRGINIA: So that was funny to see because they actually had commentators and they were like, you know, talking about their technique and we were dying laughing.

00:38:55.322 --> 00:38:56.022
VIRGINIA: It was so funny.

00:38:56.922 --> 00:38:59.782
VIRGINIA: So that brings us to Sunday, which was our departure day.

00:38:59.782 --> 00:39:05.702
VIRGINIA: So we got up at about 8 o'clock and just kind of took our time getting ready.

00:39:05.702 --> 00:39:14.742
VIRGINIA: At about 9 o'clock, we went down for our breakfast bounty platters and ended up calling a lift at about 10 o'clock.

00:39:14.742 --> 00:39:26.542
VIRGINIA: So when we went down for our bounty platters, we brought our luggage with us just so that we could sit and eat in a leisurely fashion, but know that we had our things with us and we were ready to take off once, it was time for that.

00:39:26.542 --> 00:39:36.022
VIRGINIA: So we, at about 10 o'clock, called our lift and we're walking up to the lobby to go wait for our lift.

00:39:36.022 --> 00:39:42.382
VIRGINIA: We had a little bit of time to wait, but while we're walking up there, we happened to run into the Mouselettes.

00:39:42.382 --> 00:39:51.702
VIRGINIA: So the Mouselettes, if you are not familiar with them, are two sisters who run their own Instagram, TikTok.

00:39:51.702 --> 00:39:59.802
VIRGINIA: At one point, they were selling Disney-themed products, like custom fanny packs and that sort of stuff.

00:39:59.802 --> 00:40:07.102
VIRGINIA: They had really cute stuff and they have since stopped doing that, so which is sad for all of us because it was really cute, really, really cute stuff.

00:40:07.102 --> 00:40:11.342
VIRGINIA: But they are very active on Instagram, TikTok.

00:40:11.342 --> 00:40:15.922
VIRGINIA: They are so much fun to follow, and so I highly recommend it if you have not ever listened to them.

00:40:15.922 --> 00:40:18.222
VIRGINIA: So I ran into them.

00:40:18.222 --> 00:40:24.882
VIRGINIA: We only had a few minutes to say hello because my Lyft gave me the little pop-up message that the driver was arriving.

00:40:25.222 --> 00:40:31.482
VIRGINIA: So I got to say hi to them, take a quick photo, and then we went out and hopped in our Lyft.

00:40:31.482 --> 00:40:36.042
VIRGINIA: So this comes to the part in our trip where we're doing our return flights.

00:40:36.042 --> 00:40:42.542
VIRGINIA: Because of the way we had booked our tickets, Charles was on a United flight back because he booked his with complete United points.

00:40:42.542 --> 00:40:46.482
VIRGINIA: So his flight down was United and flight back was also United.

00:40:46.482 --> 00:40:49.942
VIRGINIA: I had booked mine down Delta and back JetBlue.

00:40:49.942 --> 00:40:54.242
VIRGINIA: So at this point, as we're departing, we are departing from separate terminals.

00:40:54.342 --> 00:41:04.082
VIRGINIA: So we hopped in a lift together and went to Terminal B where Charles was leaving out of, and we had time because Charles was really wanting to make sure we weren't late.

00:41:04.082 --> 00:41:06.662
VIRGINIA: So we were actually very early.

00:41:06.662 --> 00:41:17.562
VIRGINIA: So we went into Terminal B and grabbed some Starbucks together and just sat there and chilled probably for like 30 minutes or so, maybe a little bit more than that.

00:41:17.562 --> 00:41:22.402
VIRGINIA: And then finally I was like, okay, I feel like it's time for me to start making my way over to Terminal C.

00:41:23.482 --> 00:41:26.082
VIRGINIA: So he went ahead off to his gate.

00:41:26.082 --> 00:41:31.262
VIRGINIA: I went to the Terminal Link and took the train over to Terminal C.

00:41:31.262 --> 00:41:33.502
VIRGINIA: And as I was doing that, I was like, this is so easy.

00:41:33.502 --> 00:41:38.982
VIRGINIA: Why didn't I do this when I was meeting up with my sister at Terminal C and I was coming from B.

00:41:38.982 --> 00:41:54.102
VIRGINIA: And then I remembered that after you get off the Terminal Link train, Monterey thing, there is kind of a little bit of walking that you have to do, which was fine on this trip because it was just me with the carry-on.

00:41:54.102 --> 00:41:59.882
VIRGINIA: But it would not have been the most convenient thing at that February trip.

00:41:59.882 --> 00:42:08.402
VIRGINIA: So anyway, just a reminder, if you are transferring between Terminals, there are ways to do it, but it can be a little challenging.

00:42:08.402 --> 00:42:17.782
VIRGINIA: So from there, when I got to Terminal C, I did my usual little loop around the Disney Store to see if they had anything I had not seen when I was in the park.

00:42:17.782 --> 00:42:24.682
VIRGINIA: And then I went into the Universal Store and did a look around for anything for Alex.

00:42:24.682 --> 00:42:27.022
VIRGINIA: Ended up getting him some magnets, nothing big.

00:42:27.022 --> 00:42:32.062
VIRGINIA: But speaking of Alex, he was at Sleepaway Camp during this time.

00:42:32.062 --> 00:42:38.202
VIRGINIA: And the way that it works at his Sleepaway Camp is that you can email your kid pretty much as much as you want.

00:42:38.202 --> 00:42:45.942
VIRGINIA: And then once a day, they print out the emails from parents and give them their printouts on their paper of their email.

00:42:45.942 --> 00:42:49.062
VIRGINIA: So I'm a mom of an only child.

00:42:49.202 --> 00:42:51.142
VIRGINIA: So I email Alex every single day.

00:42:51.142 --> 00:42:55.262
VIRGINIA: Like if you go back and read my emails, it's basically like a diary of my summer.

00:42:55.262 --> 00:42:58.382
VIRGINIA: Because how much can you possibly say in emails?

00:42:58.382 --> 00:43:05.242
VIRGINIA: It's not, you're not encouraged to say things like, I really miss you and stuff because you don't want the kid to be sad while they're away at camp.

00:43:05.242 --> 00:43:09.102
VIRGINIA: So I just talk about things that I've been up to.

00:43:09.102 --> 00:43:11.642
VIRGINIA: So it's like, oh, work was long today.

00:43:11.642 --> 00:43:14.742
VIRGINIA: And then I met up with so and so for dinner, that sort of thing.

00:43:14.742 --> 00:43:20.642
VIRGINIA: But for this, I was like, I don't want to tell him that we're at Disney and make him feel so bad that we're at Disney and he's not.

00:43:20.642 --> 00:43:24.342
VIRGINIA: I was like, we need to tell him after he's back that we took this weekend trip.

00:43:24.342 --> 00:43:30.222
VIRGINIA: So I was like, until then, my daily little emails to him while he's at camp need to in no way reveal to him we're at Disney.

00:43:30.222 --> 00:43:39.282
VIRGINIA: So it would be really funny to go back and read them now because they are all like, I'm being totally truthful, but I'm just not saying where I am.

00:43:39.282 --> 00:43:51.242
VIRGINIA: So for example, I said for the Saturday morning, I was like, got up and decided to go out to get a croissant today for breakfast.

00:43:51.242 --> 00:43:58.162
VIRGINIA: Had an iced chai latte, and then I said something about like, took a walk with dad.

00:43:58.162 --> 00:44:09.062
VIRGINIA: When we were having dinner at beer garden, I had dinner with dad at beer garden, which is, we have a restaurant in our neighborhood called Beer Garden, so he would have assumed that I meant our local version of the beer garden.

00:44:09.062 --> 00:44:17.162
VIRGINIA: So it was just like coded little things like that where I was being totally truthful about what we were doing, but not actually revealing where we were.

00:44:17.342 --> 00:44:23.062
VIRGINIA: So we told him after we picked him up from camp, and he was totally cool about it.

00:44:23.062 --> 00:44:28.842
VIRGINIA: But anyway, so the return flight home was pretty uneventful.

00:44:28.842 --> 00:44:36.262
VIRGINIA: After I did my looking around Terminal C, like I usually like to do, got on the plane, I think it left pretty much on time.

00:44:36.262 --> 00:44:39.782
VIRGINIA: If not on time, then pretty darn close to it.

00:44:39.782 --> 00:44:42.022
VIRGINIA: So that was uneventful.

00:44:42.282 --> 00:44:55.702
VIRGINIA: The eventful thing was that when we landed, and I started getting notifications again, was when Joe Biden had dropped out of the race while we were in mid-air.

00:44:55.702 --> 00:44:56.602
VIRGINIA: So I didn't know about it.

00:44:56.602 --> 00:44:59.562
VIRGINIA: So then suddenly it came through on the phone.

00:44:59.562 --> 00:45:05.382
VIRGINIA: And normally, obviously, Charles and I would have been talking about that, and I had nobody to talk to about it.

00:45:05.382 --> 00:45:07.502
VIRGINIA: So I was talking to my seatmates.

00:45:07.502 --> 00:45:09.602
VIRGINIA: I was like, did you see the notification on your phone?

00:45:09.602 --> 00:45:16.002
VIRGINIA: So anyway, that was interesting to have a big event like that occur while I was in the air.

00:45:16.002 --> 00:45:27.702
VIRGINIA: But the other thing I did not mention at the beginning of this trip was that the Microsoft CrowdStrike issue happened during this weekend.

00:45:27.702 --> 00:45:31.842
VIRGINIA: And we somehow escaped unscathed.

00:45:31.842 --> 00:45:37.002
VIRGINIA: So like I said, Wednesday was the day we decided that we would go to Disney.

00:45:37.002 --> 00:45:38.722
VIRGINIA: We flew out on Thursday.

00:45:38.722 --> 00:45:39.902
VIRGINIA: He flew out in the morning.

00:45:39.902 --> 00:45:42.382
VIRGINIA: I flew out that night.

00:45:42.602 --> 00:45:49.162
VIRGINIA: And then when I woke up on that Friday morning to work remotely was when the notifications came in about the CrowdStrike.

00:45:49.162 --> 00:45:52.822
VIRGINIA: And so our flights down there had not been affected.

00:45:52.822 --> 00:45:57.762
VIRGINIA: And then my flight back, like I said, was on JetBlue, not on Delta.

00:45:57.762 --> 00:45:59.462
VIRGINIA: And Delta was heavily affected.

00:45:59.462 --> 00:46:06.262
VIRGINIA: So now it worked out perfectly that my return flight was a totally different airline because JetBlue was not really affected.

00:46:06.262 --> 00:46:08.002
VIRGINIA: So that was great.

00:46:08.002 --> 00:46:10.482
VIRGINIA: And then nothing ended up happening with Charles' flight.

00:46:10.602 --> 00:46:13.142
VIRGINIA: He was able to get back just fine as well.

00:46:13.142 --> 00:46:17.582
VIRGINIA: So anyway, it was such a fun weekend.

00:46:17.582 --> 00:46:25.622
VIRGINIA: I loved doing this little impromptu thing with Charles and going down there and having just like a couple trip for a long weekend.

00:46:25.622 --> 00:46:28.082
VIRGINIA: And we had a wonderful time.

00:46:28.082 --> 00:46:29.122
VIRGINIA: 10 out of 10.

00:46:29.122 --> 00:46:30.082
VIRGINIA: Would I do this again?

00:46:30.202 --> 00:46:31.582
VIRGINIA: 100 percent.

00:46:31.582 --> 00:46:35.962
VIRGINIA: Will I do an impromptu, spontaneous trip this fall?

00:46:35.962 --> 00:46:36.862
VIRGINIA: I would like to.

00:46:36.862 --> 00:46:37.462
VIRGINIA: I don't know.

00:46:37.822 --> 00:46:38.502
VIRGINIA: We shall see.

00:46:38.502 --> 00:46:39.542
VIRGINIA: We shall see what happens.

00:46:41.882 --> 00:46:43.562
VIRGINIA: Welcome to the podcast, Charles.

00:46:43.562 --> 00:46:45.662
CHARLES: Thank you for having me.

00:46:45.662 --> 00:46:47.442
VIRGINIA: You're so excited to be here.

00:46:47.442 --> 00:46:48.022
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:46:48.022 --> 00:46:56.282
VIRGINIA: Listeners have already heard all about the story of our impromptu trip where you were dying to hang out in Hollywood Studios.

00:46:56.282 --> 00:47:01.442
VIRGINIA: And then we went and only went into Hollywood Studios to have one meal.

00:47:01.442 --> 00:47:02.422
VIRGINIA: And then that was it.

00:47:02.422 --> 00:47:07.102
VIRGINIA: So is Hollywood Studios actually your favorite park?

00:47:07.102 --> 00:47:07.862
CHARLES: No, it is not.

00:47:08.002 --> 00:47:10.842
CHARLES: My favorite park is Epcot Center.

00:47:10.842 --> 00:47:14.402
VIRGINIA: I did not know that until just now.

00:47:14.402 --> 00:47:15.362
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:47:15.362 --> 00:47:17.902
VIRGINIA: So what other surprises do you have up your sleeve?

00:47:17.902 --> 00:47:20.902
VIRGINIA: What is your favorite ride?

00:47:20.902 --> 00:47:22.242
CHARLES: Spaceship Earth.

00:47:22.242 --> 00:47:26.822
VIRGINIA: See, that's a surprise to me too, because I would have thought that it would have been living with the land.

00:47:26.822 --> 00:47:27.862
CHARLES: No, it's not.

00:47:27.862 --> 00:47:29.482
CHARLES: It's Spaceship Earth.

00:47:29.482 --> 00:47:31.382
CHARLES: I like the history of communication.

00:47:33.122 --> 00:47:35.182
VIRGINIA: You're just very thankful for the Venetians.

00:47:35.862 --> 00:47:38.002
CHARLES: Yes.

00:47:38.002 --> 00:47:39.242
VIRGINIA: So what's second then?

00:47:39.242 --> 00:47:41.242
VIRGINIA: Is second living with the land?

00:47:43.682 --> 00:47:44.782
CHARLES: I don't know.

00:47:45.422 --> 00:47:48.382
CHARLES: I did not come prepared to answer that question.

00:47:48.382 --> 00:47:53.842
CHARLES: But if I had to say, what's my second favorite ride?

00:47:53.842 --> 00:47:58.842
CHARLES: I like the one with the raccoon in it.

00:48:02.102 --> 00:48:02.442
CHARLES: What?

00:48:04.142 --> 00:48:05.382
CHARLES: What should I call it?

00:48:05.842 --> 00:48:07.322
CHARLES: What are those people?

00:48:07.322 --> 00:48:09.602
VIRGINIA: Oh, are you talking about Cosmic Rewind?

00:48:09.602 --> 00:48:12.022
CHARLES: I like Cosmic Rewind.

00:48:12.022 --> 00:48:16.462
VIRGINIA: I don't know why, but I was picturing a little animatronic, and I don't know why.

00:48:16.462 --> 00:48:17.802
VIRGINIA: But okay.

00:48:17.802 --> 00:48:18.862
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:48:18.862 --> 00:48:26.302
VIRGINIA: Then next question about Cosmic Rewind then, since you brought it up, what's your favorite song to get on Cosmic Rewind?

00:48:26.302 --> 00:48:27.962
CHARLES: Everybody wants to rule the world.

00:48:27.962 --> 00:48:29.102
VIRGINIA: Of course it is.

00:48:29.102 --> 00:48:30.062
VIRGINIA: Of course it is.

00:48:30.062 --> 00:48:35.582
VIRGINIA: Anybody who's been listening to the podcast knows that that is our family's favorite song on Cosmic Rewind.

00:48:35.582 --> 00:48:36.802
VIRGINIA: Okay.

00:48:36.802 --> 00:48:41.182
VIRGINIA: Now, I already kind of give a little spoiler to this in talking about our trip.

00:48:41.182 --> 00:48:43.642
VIRGINIA: But what is your favorite resort?

00:48:43.642 --> 00:48:45.062
CHARLES: French Quarter.

00:48:45.062 --> 00:48:47.182
VIRGINIA: What do you love so much about French Quarter?

00:48:47.182 --> 00:48:51.982
CHARLES: I like that they have a jazz club built into it.

00:48:51.982 --> 00:48:54.722
CHARLES: They have great food.

00:48:54.722 --> 00:48:58.462
CHARLES: The food in the food court is like the best out of any resort.

00:48:58.462 --> 00:48:59.822
CHARLES: I don't care what anybody says.

00:49:00.642 --> 00:49:03.282
CHARLES: They have all the Cajun food.

00:49:03.282 --> 00:49:07.262
CHARLES: They have regular American fare.

00:49:07.262 --> 00:49:11.462
CHARLES: And they also make pretty good Bloody Marys.

00:49:11.462 --> 00:49:13.102
VIRGINIA: And you do love a Bloody Mary.

00:49:13.102 --> 00:49:14.062
CHARLES: I do.

00:49:14.062 --> 00:49:14.942
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:49:14.942 --> 00:49:20.722
VIRGINIA: And what is your favorite DVC property that we have stayed at?

00:49:20.722 --> 00:49:24.782
CHARLES: I guess it would be Wilderness Lodge.

00:49:24.782 --> 00:49:27.902
CHARLES: But really, I love the French Quarter the most.

00:49:29.122 --> 00:49:32.542
VIRGINIA: Are you looking forward to our big February trip?

00:49:32.542 --> 00:49:34.642
CHARLES: Yes, I'm looking forward to it.

00:49:34.642 --> 00:49:36.522
CHARLES: It's good family time.

00:49:36.522 --> 00:49:40.002
CHARLES: I think that's the most essential part about it.

00:49:40.002 --> 00:49:42.902
CHARLES: I don't regret getting DVC.

00:49:44.722 --> 00:49:47.742
CHARLES: It was worked out in our favor financially.

00:49:47.742 --> 00:49:54.602
CHARLES: We've matched what we put into it based on what we spent in hotels.

00:49:56.542 --> 00:49:58.482
CHARLES: I think that's been great.

00:50:00.502 --> 00:50:02.062
CHARLES: It's a trip that I can look forward to.

00:50:02.062 --> 00:50:05.822
CHARLES: That doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

00:50:05.822 --> 00:50:07.422
VIRGINIA: Do you know where we're staying in February?

00:50:07.422 --> 00:50:09.782
VIRGINIA: Have you paid attention when I told you about it?

00:50:09.782 --> 00:50:12.102
CHARLES: I don't remember.

00:50:12.102 --> 00:50:12.762
VIRGINIA: Pop quiz.

00:50:12.762 --> 00:50:14.322
VIRGINIA: Where are we staying?

00:50:14.322 --> 00:50:15.922
VIRGINIA: As of right now.

00:50:15.922 --> 00:50:17.262
CHARLES: Is it the Floridian?

00:50:17.262 --> 00:50:18.682
VIRGINIA: Yes.

00:50:18.682 --> 00:50:23.702
VIRGINIA: As of right now, we're doing two nights at Old Key West and then five nights at the Grand Floridian.

00:50:24.202 --> 00:50:26.302
VIRGINIA: You've never stayed at the Grand Floridian before.

00:50:26.302 --> 00:50:27.642
CHARLES: No, I have not.

00:50:27.642 --> 00:50:28.522
VIRGINIA: Yes, I have.

00:50:28.882 --> 00:50:29.802
VIRGINIA: You're going to love it.

00:50:29.802 --> 00:50:32.322
VIRGINIA: I know you're going to love it.

00:50:32.322 --> 00:50:35.342
VIRGINIA: Well, I think that's about it for today.

00:50:36.602 --> 00:50:44.062
VIRGINIA: Thank you so much for coming on the show and thank you for supporting the podcast and for always promoting it to everybody you know.

00:50:44.082 --> 00:50:49.242
VIRGINIA: I am happy that you finally made your appearance, your podcast debut.

00:50:49.242 --> 00:50:49.762
CHARLES: Okay.

00:50:49.762 --> 00:50:51.042
CHARLES: Thank you very much everybody.

00:50:51.862 --> 00:50:54.282
CHARLES: I'm glad you listened to my wife's podcast.

00:50:54.282 --> 00:50:56.082
CHARLES: She works really hard on it.

00:50:56.082 --> 00:50:57.122
VIRGINIA: Thank you.

00:50:57.122 --> 00:50:57.742
VIRGINIA: I love you.

00:50:57.742 --> 00:50:58.422
CHARLES: I love you too.

00:50:58.422 --> 00:50:58.702
VIRGINIA: All right.

00:50:58.702 --> 00:51:02.522
CHARLES: Bye.

00:51:02.522 --> 00:51:04.482
VIRGINIA: Thank you all so much for listening.

00:51:04.482 --> 00:51:10.262
VIRGINIA: If you are interested in being a trip report guest and you have a trip plan for 2025, please reach out to me.

00:51:10.262 --> 00:51:13.782
VIRGINIA: I'm especially looking for people traveling in the beginning of the new year.

00:51:13.782 --> 00:51:22.642
VIRGINIA: So if that's you or if you're a travel agent and have a client traveling during that time who might make a good guest, please reach out using the link in the show notes.

00:51:22.642 --> 00:51:24.362
VIRGINIA: That is all for today.

00:51:24.362 --> 00:51:29.222
VIRGINIA: Thank you all for your continued support and keep daydreaming about where you long to be.