Episode 7: Behind the Ears: Our Disney World Recap, Part 1

We're back from the Most Magical Place on Earth, and we have thoughts.  In part 1 of a two part episode, we're unpacking Andrea's whirlwind, 48 hours in Orlando. Join us as we talk about how she conquered the parks in just a few hours, her favorite snacks, and her favorite parts of the trip!

On episode 2, releasing on Tuesday, May 25, 2026, we hear from Olivia, who was at Disney World during the same week but had a completely different experience!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Come on, everybody. Here we go.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

Welcome back to Chasing Disney Dreams. I'm your host, Andrea Telena, and I'm Olivia Allward. And today's episode is going to look a little different because we both ended up booking trips to Walt Disney World during the exact same week, just on completely different days, and we were not together.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

So we were in the same place at almost the same time, but we actually had totally separate experiences. Today we're breaking down and comparing what our separate Disney trips looked like and what was happening in the same exact week in different parts.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

So grab your Mickey ears and pick your spot for the three o'clock parade. The show is about to begin. When we went to Disney together, but not together at all. We were there the exact same week. I was there the weekend. Yep. I went on Friday. I landed on Friday afternoon and went to Hollywood Studios on Friday night. And on Saturday, we did uh Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom. So we did three parks over the course of about 36 hours. I was only in Orlando for about 48 hours total.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Yeah. And you went with your cousin, and then I flew out on Monday morning, and I was there through Friday. And we I went with my best friend and we did um Epcot. So we got all the parks done but very different ways. I just did. And then we also, me and my friend also went to some of the resorts like the Polynesian, the Grand Floridian, and Disney Springs. So totally different Disney trips, but the exact same week.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Yeah. We were there almost at the exact same time. When I was coming home, you were leaving. So it was pretty funny, but to your point, we got to hit all four parks between the two of us Disney Springs and some resorts. Plenty of pictures and videos and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

So follow our podcast page for all of those pictures and videos that are coming up. But we had really seriously different experiences, and we tried to make sure that we hit everything that is new. So, like Epcot, we went and did like the Flower and Garden Festival and were able to take pictures of like all the topiaries and that kind of thing because we've talked about that in one of our past episodes, and then you did like the night shows and all that type of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

So yeah, we really got to see the progress that is being made on all of the changes that are coming to Disney. So at Hollywood Studios, which was again our first night, we got there. I guess it was probably around 2 p.m. I bought Lightning Lane, and we went and rode. I can't remember what we did first, to be honest. I probably got a coffee first. That was probably the priority. Maybe I think I got a coffee first. No, maybe the line was too long. Maybe I didn't get a coffee first. I can't remember. Anyway, um, I bought Lightning Lane and we we rode Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, Toy Story Midway Mania, I Road Tower of Terror.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

Yeah, so pretty much we're gonna break down our entire week from the moment we landed till what our week looked like, and just talking about Disney. So we're gonna start with you and talk about okay, you landed, you got off your plane, and you went to Hollywood Studios as you've kind of gotten into. So tell us about like what your day looked like, how you set it up, how your trip was, what it was, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

So I tend to be a person that's really not great at planning, which doesn't always help. This trip was really kind of on a whim. I think I booked my airfare maybe a week before I left.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

And that is exactly why we didn't go at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

Exactly, exactly. I I just happened to find it, and uh my cousin who I went with, they he actually lives down there. Him and his wife live down there, and they're you know five five or ten minutes or so from the parks. So he picked me up at the airport and we headed straight for Hollywood Studios. And when we got there, we I had purchased Lightning Lane, I think, as we were driving in, if I'm not mistaken. Driving in. Yeah, we were driving into the parks. Yeah. Oh yeah, it's I'm I'm good at I'm really good at this, right? I learned a lot.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

This is funny because we're complete opposite when it comes to that. I would have had it purchased seven days. Well, you couldn't have it purchased, I guess three days in advance.

SPEAKER_02 4:57

Nope. I woke up the next morning and purchased them for Magic Kingdom. So I mean I am uh this is so a long time ago, that's how you you you didn't even plan your trip. And that's again part of the difference between you and I is I was before all the technology and I miss it terribly, which was I remember growing up and you would wake up and say, Oh, what park are we going to today? It wasn't this, you need park reservations, which I know you really don't anymore, but you need dining reservations and you need lightning lane reservations and all of these things. It wasn't always like that.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

You are the um podcast and I am the travel agent.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

Yeah, that's it's exactly why.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

So you got there, you said that you purchase your lightning rings as you're going through the gate.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Yep, yep, pretty much. Pretty much. And I I really can't remember the order for which we did things. I did, again, because my planning is amazing here. Spot on. Spot on. When we walked in, I decided I wanted to go see Phantasmic. Let me take a step back. Since having Evie, I haven't got to see it, so I didn't see the changes that were made a couple years ago with adding Elsa or Moana or any of those. And so I said, If I do nothing else, it's fantastic. That's what I want to do. Well, then to take that a step further, I really wanted a good seat, so I said, Yeah, booking a phasmic dining package sounds like a fantastic idea. So make sure I get a good seat. And good food. And good food. So that's what I did. We went and we had dinner at Sci-Fi. Sci-Fi, I don't know if it's called drive-in dining, whatever. We ate there. Yeah. Um, and I'll tell you about that in a few minutes. And then we had our Phantasmic premiere seating. Yeah. And I think I've had the best seats I've ever had for Phantasmic. Yeah. And it was meant to be. It was meant to be. It was the most amazing thing in the entire universe, and I loved every moment of it. And it was just wonderful. It made going for 36 hours completely and totally worth it. So but when we were there, I did get to go back and see kind of where things stood with the monsters ink area that they're building. Not a lot you can see. They do have kind of an outline of what's going to or like what it's gonna look like. What it's gonna look like and stuff like that. And kind of like floor plans of sort of, but it's not necessarily like you can actually see what they're they're more like an aerial view.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:16

So you can kind of see what things are gonna look like.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

I know there's been lots of videos posted about like drawings of like what it's gonna look like and type that type of thing. And funny story, before they came out with the coaster, the Monsters Inc. coaster that they're coming out with, I and I swear on everything, I told my mom this before they came out with any of these details about what they were doing. I was like, mom, imagine if they come out with a roller coaster that is like you're flying with the doors on Monsters Inc. And soon later they came out with that. So they're either listening to me on my phone or I'm just you know psychic? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

You knew what was coming? I love it. But you can't you I mean you can't really see much. They're those lovely green walls that Disney puts everywhere when they're they're doing any type of updates to their parks, and uh all you can really see is like the scaffolding from right here, the buildings are being built up around there. So, not a whole lot you can see. It does look like though that it's coming along quite nicely.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

Yeah, I mean everything's torn out from Muppets, so I guess that's the huge stuff and then starting to rebuild and yep, yep, so it's coming along.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

It's gonna I think it's probably gonna take a while, but yeah. It was excited exciting to at least see that progress is being made back there. It does make me sad though. I'm gonna miss Muppets.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:33

But I also miss the the streets of America that used to be back there before Galaxy's Edge. So there's that.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Change is sometimes hard, but it's good.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

It is hard. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

These are all things again Especially just because like that's something that you grew up with. I was gonna say that's yeah, it's a little bit different for me because I didn't necessarily I didn't even know some of the things that you know were before what's there now. Like I only know Star Wars area. So like I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Yeah, no, it was it really is. It's so it's so fun to that we get to sit down and we get to talk about these things because we do have such different perspectives. You are very much the what Disney is today while I still live in what Disney was 20 years ago. So, you know, they used to have the the Streets of America, and I remember, like, I think it was the first trip me and my husband, my now husband, took. We asked a cast member to take our picture uh in the street like on Streets of America, and that was the first time I'd ever had a cast member turn their phone around to take a picture of themselves and then take a picture of us. So imagine our surprise when we had this picture of him, but he was a super nice guy, and then they had a really fun, what I thought was a really fun stunt show back there, which was Lights, Motors in Action, okay, which was a stunt show based around like car scenes and car chases and stuff like that, and that one was fun. Yeah, and then they had the back lot tour, which was like you were on almost like the trams that they have in the parking lots, and you would go through and see some of the sound stages.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

I think that's so funny because that's what Universal has now, and the fact that Disney took that away, it's just funny to me. Oh yeah. Like Universal now is ha also has like a drastic park area, and obviously Disney just took away their dyno land. So I just think it's funny because like Disney's changing their things to not be like Universal, but it seems like Universal was like, I guess you could say, copying them in a way.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

Yeah, yeah, no, that's a I mean that's a valid point. I never even thought of it like that, but that's I mean you're exactly right on that.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

It's like they're just one step behind. Right. Not that they're necessarily one step behind because I know that Universal bases off of a lot of movies that Disney doesn't.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Like the Well, Jurassic Park isn't Disney and they they're off that. And you know, how to train your dragons, the The Simpsons, although I think that's being redone.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

I think is one of them.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

Although the Simpsons might now be Disney, I feel like.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Because it's in the Universal.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

Well, but so Universal also has the superheroes. Yeah, which Disney also now is Marvel and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

Yeah. So it's just funny because I don't know, like, are they working together?

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Like, are they working so I should totally my cousin works for Universal and I should totally ask him that question because I don't know. At one time I had heard We need to do an interview with him. We do need to do an interview with him. At one time I had heard that the reason why we in in Disney World we didn't have more of the superhero rides. So out in California, you actually have like the whole Marvel section there.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

The incredible coaster and things like that, too.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Yep, but that's it, that's in the other. No, that's in the same park, but it's on the other side of the park. I think it's in the same park anyway.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

But it's somewhat of a like a faster piece.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

Yep. Yep, exactly. But the reason why we don't have the the or the reason why Walt Disney World doesn't have the superhero type aspect that California has is because there's an agreement that you that Disney would not put in the superhero stuff within so much time of Universal having it. So much time, so much distance, something like that. I'd have to go back and research it. But that's what I had heard about.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

I mean, it's just it gets to be repetitive, and then people aren't gonna want to, you know, go to both or experience both because they're the same. So it's good that they're a little bit different. No, I I can be able to do it. Like Harry Potter is such a big thing, right? But we there's nothing like that at Disney.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

So right. Well, in Epic Universe now is you know, brand new, they have a lot of new stuff. Yeah, like Mario and stuff like that too. Yeah, yep. But uh back to Disney World because we just got off on a tangent.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

So talk about like how you did your rides, and like obviously, like you said that you booked them going in, but what rides do you ride? What things did you like, what things did what you changed, that type of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

Okay. So we rode, I honestly can't even remember what I wrote if you want to know the truth. We rode Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, which I love. So do I. It's such a fun ride. It's just so different. It really is. And my you know, my topper loves it. Yeah, she thinks it's the funniest thing in the world. And then we rode Toy Story Midway Mania.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

Where I I got owned and that I did not do well. But it's okay. It's fine. It's fine. I'm not bitter. And what else did we write? Then we have lunch at sci-fi. I'm trying to think of all the.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Did you read Tower?

SPEAKER_02 13:35

We did, I wrote Tower of Tear. He doesn't write Tower of Tear. I wrote Tower of Tear, but I wrote it. We went to the first show of Phantasmic, and I wrote it. I did have a fast passport, I guess. I completely forgot about that. I wrote it right after Phantasmic. So we we exited in Phantasmic and I got right in line for Tower of Tear. It was good. It was, I love that, right? It's one of my favorites, and I hope they never change it. But they didn't have you were a Tower of Tear? Yeah. So the pre-show there at the beginning, like that you walk in and you hear whatever his name is say, you know, you've entered the Twilight Zone or whatnot. That wasn't even open. You walked straight through it. And I I love I was a little disappointed in that.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

That's just part of the like the experience. Like it's the pre-show for a reason.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

I know. So that was a little disappointing.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

But so did you have lightning lanes for all of the rides that you did, or did you wait in any standby lines?

SPEAKER_02 14:24

I don't think I waited in any standby lines.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Okay, because I was gonna ask you like what did the standby lines look like for you guys? Because we did a whole different experience. We didn't buy lightning lanes. So we can kind of talk about that later. Well that's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

I didn't realize that. Yeah. So again, to your point, us being very different. I, because we go as often as we go, I'm one of these people that I'm like, if I don't do it this time, I'll do it next time, so it's no big deal. Yeah. So unless I have a lightning lane or I can get on it quickly, I don't normally ride it. I'm I don't have the patience to stand in the line. So, um, we did. We we rode we we used lightning lane for what we rode and then the dining package for Phantasmic. We did walk back and see where the Muppet, like where Rock and Roller Coaster is. It's not it wasn't open yet. I think it's Did you see the new car though? I can't remember. That sounds terrible. I don't even remember our car being up there. I feel like it was the new car.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

You start to see like all of the things that you usually see. I just like so I think the car was definitely up and painted how it is now when you guys went. Oh I'm sure. But the one thing I don't know is if they changed the guitar yet, but I don't even know if you would have been able to see it.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

No, there was there was some some scaffolding and stuff up in front of it. We didn't see anything like that. So Yep. And then we did oh, the other thing we did, we saw No, we didn't.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

Did you ride um We did, we watched The Little Mermaid.

SPEAKER_02 15:51

I was thinking it was Frozen Ever After, but we saw the new Little Mermaid show. Oh, good. That opens. Um it's really not that different in my opinion. No. No, really not. There's there's more screen stuff and less like puppeteering.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

Did you go see Indiana Jones?

SPEAKER_02 16:06

We didn't. No. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

I was wondering if you guys saw because they took away the boulder, I thought.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

I had heard that, but no, I didn't. No. We didn't do that. We didn't the other one I would have that I love to see because it just makes me laugh hysterically is Frozen Ever After. Yeah. But we didn't go see that either. Again, we got there at like two, and by the time we had so much time. Yeah. By the time we sat down and had dinner and that kind of thing, we didn't have a lot of time.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

So your fantasmic experience, talk about that. You obviously you said you purchased it. What was the food like? What was your seats? Sure.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

So we we ate at sci-fi, and this is the second time I've I've been there. Now, the first time I went, there were three of us that went there. And if you've never been, the you sit in in like a they have cars that you can sit in, or if you're in the back, it's more like a bench style seating, almost like a pick round picnic table thing. When you have more than two people, personally speaking, I'd rather sit in the back because you can all kind of sit there together. Whereas when you're in the car, you are literally it's it's just like a car setup. You're sitting next to that person. Since there was two of us, it it worked just fine. But when you start getting next to each other, but when you start getting more than that, especially if you've got six people, that front row can't talk to anybody in the back row. And you're breaking your neck, yeah, you're breaking your neck to talk to people behind you. So that's part of it. The the the depth of of like what's considered the table, which is almost like a counter type thing attached to the seat in front of you. Right, it's not super deep. So it's just a real tight fit. Yeah. I had a burger without the bun, which they did excellent on. No bun for me. Thank you very much, Disney. And it was good. I mean, it was your just kind of your traditional burger, I guess. But with the dining package, we got or with the the dining, yeah, package. We got our meal. And we got a dessert, I know. Okay. I don't think I had anything before the meal. Maybe my drink. Yeah, I don't think we had an appetizer, but I know we had dessert, and I know I had the meal. Clearly, I'm really great at this. Like, don't book things and I don't remember what I've what I had to eat. Um She just had such a great time. I did, I did. I just wasn't paying attention. In all honesty, the only reason why we went there was I wanted the phasmic dining package.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

You were probably excited about it.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

I briefly considered going to the brown derby because I hadn't been there. Yeah. I haven't been to the brown derby in forever. However, I really didn't want to spend that kind of money on it. So we went to sci-fi.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

So you had a burger with fries? I think so. Yeah. And then do you remember what your dessert was?

SPEAKER_02 18:42

No.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

Yeah, I was gonna say you probably don't know.

SPEAKER_02 18:44

No, I don't. I could probably go back and figure it out, but I can't right now. But it was good. I mean, it wasn't it wasn't anything that's like extra- I don't I it's not something that I'm like, oh my god, I I've gotta go back there every trip I take. That wasn't it. It was good. I'm glad I went. I will eat there again.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Especially if I walk into the park and want Phantasmic seating, and that's the only place that's left for the dining package. So, you know, that's kind of how we we operated that one.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

So your seats for Phantasmic, where were they?

SPEAKER_02 19:15

Oh my god, they were amazing! Um, they were literally smack in the middle, and we were probably three rows up. Oh, like to the point, oh yeah, to the point when they when like the water shoots up and everything. Oh yeah, we were we were wet. It was, you know, we it was all part of the experience. It it was. I don't know if I've ever had seats that good for Phantasmic. It was great. And I've got some really awesome video. I know I've posted some of it, but I'll be sure to post more. That with the zoom is just amazing, like you like Mickey looks so great. Yeah, you know, I've really never had that. It's not the video's not grainy, nothing. So it was really good. Yeah. So after Phantasmic, we walked around, I got on Tower of Tear, and then we left. Done for the night. Done for the night, just just a couple hours. So while there, one of the other highlights of my visit, aside from Phantasmic, was we went or I went and had an adult beverage from Sunshine Day Bar on Sunset Boulevard, and I got a Southside Fizz, which has Hendrix Gin, pure cane sugar, and lemon juice topped with soda water. It was $17.50, but holy moly, it was delicious. And the bartender was just amazing. I wish I remembered his name. I'm so mad that I don't. But he was incredible, like to the point that my cousin was taking video. He took video of everything. God love him. But he was taking video and me thanking him. I don't even remember saying this if that tells you anything. But I said, please continue just making people happy because you are doing an incredible job. He was just so just had a big personality and he was really cool. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

So that's your Hollywood studios day. Yep. So moving forward, you obviously went back to your cousin's house. So you guys did not do rope dropping because you did not get the like 30 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

Yeah, we didn't get the 30 minutes to get into Animal Kingdom the next morning, which is where we went in the morning. But we were there.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

It did.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

It opened at 8. I think we were there at like 7.15. Yeah. Uh we did stop at McDonald's on the way in for breakfast, so we didn't eat breakfast there. And we were there at Rope Drop. We went in. Initially, my plan was to just head over and ride Flight of Passage at Rope Drop, but because it had opened 30 minutes early, the line was already a little bit longer, and like I said earlier, I don't wait in lines, so we didn't ride it.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

I I this is definitely a hot take, but I don't know how I feel about Flight of Passage.

SPEAKER_02 21:52

You're weird. How do you not know that it's amazing?

SPEAKER_01 21:56

I have okay, so number one, I've only wrote it one time.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

That's your first problem.

SPEAKER_01 22:01

Okay. So because I don't want to wait in the line. And so like sometimes I'll buy the like.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

You always just pay for it.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

Well, sometimes I buy well, actually only one time. No, I didn't even buy it that time because I rope dropped that time. And we were staying at Old US, so it wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

So you did get early.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

But I don't know why, but everybody like hypes it up so much. And I'm such a fan of Guardians because I don't know, Guardians is just amazing.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

You can compare the two.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

Okay, well I did. Okay, well that was your first one to stay. Well, and like I think that like I was just expecting like actually to be moving. And since you're not really moving that much, I don't know how I like I just I should have more comp not even that it's comparable to Soren, but how Soren you're like sitting there and going through I think like it would be more comparable in a way to Soren than it would be to Guardians. I would go. I just I don't know. I think if I had to compare between Flight of Passage and Guardians, I would definitely get Guardians.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

I don't know why you're comparing them. I'll start by saying that because they are very different. If you're the adrenaline.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

I think that like that's why I like I didn't know what to expect.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

I think when you go next time to go in knowing. Yeah, go in with an open mind.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Because there was a family in front of us and they had like 20 people, like actually 20 people. And he was like, Have you guys ever rode this ride? Like the dad of the group, I don't know. And he was like, Have you guys ever rode this ride? And I was like, Oh no, like it's Nathan's first time being here, like so we've never rode it. And I don't know what I was expecting, but that was our last day, so we already rode like Guardians, and like um at that point we rode Rock and Roller Coaster as it's like original. And so like I think I was expecting more of like a moving ride. Yeah, so I think that's why I just like don't know how I feel about it.

SPEAKER_02 23:51

Yeah, no, it's oh my gosh, it's I love Flight of Passage, it's one of my favorites. Yeah, well, it's in my opinion, it is a senses overload. Yeah. So it is, you know, you go through certain aspects of it and it got the most wonderful smells. Yeah. Or you feel the mist of the water, or when you're actually on the on the like the ride itself, it's designed, you're almost sitting like you're riding a motorcycle, and you're supposed to be on the back of an ecron, and you can actually feel it like breathing.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

And stuff. So it's it's really cool. I think I really think I need to go in time.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

I need to go in thinking with more of an open mind.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

And more thinking of like the details. Not necessarily a ride, but like the details because I think that that would make it. But I think seriously, I went in thinking like this is gonna be a ride. Yeah. Because I have I didn't want to watch any videos on it. I didn't want to explain I didn't want to know anything about it. And that's my fault, obviously. But I just wanted to go in and like experience it for the first time without like knowing anything.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

I did the same thing with guardians actually, but I think that's why I just like didn't know how to feel like it.

SPEAKER_02 25:02

It wasn't what you were expecting. Yeah. So it's no, I I encourage you to go do it again and go in with more of an open mind because it's nothing like nothing like guardians.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

That's what I yeah. Very different, very different. Go in with an open mind.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Yes. We didn't ride Flight of Passage, we did go back and ride the safari. And it said it was like a 15-minute wait. I feel like it was a little bit longer than that.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

Did you get in right when it opened? Because it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 25:28

Well, except the half an hour that the part that um resort guest could get in. We were right after that though.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

But did they open it early? Because they usually open it 30 minutes after the park actually opens to resort guest.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

I think it opens at eight minutes. Maybe well, so there were again, there were a lot of people walking through it when we got there, but again, I think. You know, because while it may have already had a lot of people in the line or had some people in the line, and it had been going. I was rope dropping with everybody else on a Saturday morning that lives in Orlando or whatever it may be. So we we waited. It wasn't a long line, but we waited a little bit to ride that. I was so surprised because we rode it so early, which is generally when you have a pretty good safari ride. If you're there just as the animals are starting to wake up and everything before they get hungry and take their afternoon naps. It was not one of the best safaris I've ever been on. Really? Yeah, it was actually quite forgettable.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

So the last time me and Nathan went for his like first time going to the animal kingdom, we wrote it right in the morning and on our travel agent page and on our podcast page, I think there's a video, but we saw one of the like male lions waking up and like roaring. Yeah, and yeah, it's a cool video. Yeah, so like I just that's surprising because and I did look it up just to make sure I was correct, but the Kilimanjaro Safari opens 30 minutes after, so it opens at the time of the park actually opening to August.

SPEAKER_02 27:03

So that's why the line seems so long. So we were just trying to get people on those cars and move.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

Oh, makes sense. And then also it says that it also can often sometimes close between 30 to 60 minutes before the actual park closes because they have to, you know, take care of the animals. Yeah. Oh, very good to know. Yeah. There's actually some really good documentaries on Disney Plus, and they're about like taking care of the animals and stuff like that. So if that ever interests you, side note, but Yeah, it's I I love Animal Kingdom.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

We'll do a podcast on that.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

In the future about the hot take of Animal Kingdom being a half-day park. Yes. I don't agree. Maybe I agree a little bit more now since all of Dino Land is closed and they're redoing it.

SPEAKER_01 27:46

Is going to make it not a half-day park.

SPEAKER_02 27:49

Well, in and when Dino Land was open, I didn't think it was a half-day park. I mean, we would go.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

Keep in mind Animal Kingdom's not open as late as the other parks, so also you have to think of it as like, okay, you're going we're gonna get into this a little bit more later, obviously. But I think so many people compare it to an amusement park where it's not necessarily fully an amusement park. It's part of a zoo practically. Yeah. Like it's not necessarily you have to take it in a little bit differently.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

You do, you do. And with it not being open as late as the other parks, I mean, I can't get everything done between 8 and noon or 8 and 1 or 8 and even 8 and 2. Yeah. You know, by the time I eat and I I ride the rides I want to ride, sometimes I'll ride the safari more than one time. And if you have a child, seeing the show, the child, shopping, which takes me forever. It's become a whole day, and I I like that because it closes, you know, let's say it closes now probably closer to 8 o'clock, but at one time it would close at like six. And on those days we would spend the entire morning at Animal Kingdom. I never I got everything done. I wouldn't feel like I need to go back to Animal Kingdom for a second day. The other three parks, maybe not so much Hollywood Studios, but Epcot and Magic Kingdom. I could always go back for a second day.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

You're walking through stuff so fast, and I think this is the park that, and again, we'll get into one later, but this is the park that you can slow down. Right. And you can take it all in. Right. And you don't have to rush around.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Yeah. So we rode the safari again, not one of like we didn't see any, we saw one elephant. We didn't see like the whole groupum that's usually there after you pass the I think it's the male, is usually off by himself. We saw the male but didn't see anybody else. Like normally you always see the little ones and everything. Yeah, nothing. We saw, I think one no, maybe two giraffes. We saw, I'm trying to even think. We didn't see any of the Okapi. The hippos were all in the water. I mean, so we saw them, but you know, it's fun when you see them actually on the land and stuff. And yeah. Also, this is complete off topic.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

Have you ever heard a hippo laugh?

SPEAKER_02 29:52

No, but it sounds like something I need to hear.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

It is so weird. Like, it sounds like deep and like scary. And they laugh? Yeah, like supposedly it's like a hippo's laugh. I don't know why, but I just saw that.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

I will for sure look this up because now I'm in train. Now I'm in trained.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

I just like saw that video the other day, and it is like weird. And so now all of you can go look it up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:14

Coming from Cincinnati, when we had, you know, we had Fiona, the little baby hippo, who's not a baby anymore, and now we're little brother Fritz, who is also not a little baby anymore. You would have thought I would have I would have known something about hippos laughing, and I didn't. No that's not I sure didn't. Yeah. Another thing that I really am excited to talk about on a future episode, but to mention it here, I've done the wild Africa trek, which is incredible. So another spot I you would have thought I would have heard a hippo laugh, was there's a moment you're hooked to a harness that you kind of walk around, it's almost like a cliff thing, and your guide will be there and they'll have like huge watermelons that they can throw into the water, yeah, and you watch the hippos eat them. And I mean you're close enough, like the the one hippo, strangely enough, the one hippo he was eating, and when he would open his mouth, you could see where he had a cavity in his tooth. Yeah, like this big gaby hole in his tooth. It was the strangest thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

I found the video. Should I play it?

SPEAKER_02 31:09

The video of the hippo laughing.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

Honestly.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Isn't that scary? And I like thought, okay, that's fake. No, like there's multiple videos.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

I just like I've never seen that, and for whatever reason it came over my 40th page, so.

SPEAKER_02 31:31

Well, now we're gonna see it all over the place because our phones are listening to us.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

Um, so then I wrote, what else did we do? We watched the Lion King show, which is always amazing. We walked in just as that was also starting. This was the trip that I tended to really get to things last minute and still managed to get some good seats. Like we were like the third row up. On the Lion? Uh-huh. Because we because we there were only two of us, and so we we separated. He was in the my cousin was in the row behind me, and we were just on the very end. So they just kind of squeezed us in. It was perfect, and we were like again the third row up or something.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

That show is also amazing for kids. And especially off of that, not just kids, also kids with sensory issues. My cousin actually leaves today no, I guess my aunt and uncle, and then my cousins leave today and they're driving to Disney, and that's one thing that I said, like, hey, definitely do this because you know it's so much fun. And her daughter has autism, and so she will definitely enjoy that.

SPEAKER_02 32:33

She will, yeah. I love I love that. I also love the Finding Nemo show.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

I didn't go see it, but it's like too because she's definitely more into shows, like she is an extremely smart child, and like sh when she's watching movies, she reads the credits at the end. Like that's her like favorite part. And so, like, she will love the shows at Disney just because of the amount of color and detail and all the things. Yeah, they're great.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

They Disney does a really great job on their shows. And so after that, uh, we walked around through Asia. I did want to walk back on the Asia the Asia path back there because I wanted to go see see the the baby tiger who is getting bigger. He's really not a baby anymore. He did I did find out because I talked to the guy that he has to separate him because he's a male now, and so because he's a male, he's becoming very territorial. So from his mom, you mean his mom and the other male that they have, so they're they're separated from each other. So he was by himself, which was pretty, I guess it sounds like they're pretty solitary animals, from what I understand. So But he was cute.

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Will he hurt his mom? Oh. Yep. That's kinda crazy. Yep. As they get bigger, they do. So the more you know.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

From what I understand, anyway. I'm no zoologist, but that's kind of what I found out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:48

Um is the other male his brother by a chance or no, I think it's his dad. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:52

I could be wrong. Don't quote me on that. Could be completely wrong.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:55

I don't know. That's kind of crazy. Yep. So interesting. Like, even to the point that they at one time had like windows where you could all they could see in with each other. And they had to cover those because they would, yeah, they would get a little feisty.

SPEAKER_01 34:11

So feisty through the windows. Who knew? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:15

And so we walked that pass and then continued on through Asia, and I wro I rode Expedition Everest. I did the single rider line, which moved pretty quick. That was fun. I did too. It's so much fun.

SPEAKER_01 34:29

And the I know I don't think you go through it through the single rider, but going through like the cue of it is like really yeah, they did a great job with that queue.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

It's one of the good ones. So then we got off that, or I got off that, and we walked around and we walked through what was for not through it, but around what was formerly Dino Land USA. And I got, you know, again, lots of walls up. There's nothing new to report on tropical Americas besides the fact that it's it's coming. You can start to see them building things. I did uh they have they have like a chain link fence up and then some sort of green mesh over top of it, and there were holes in parts of the green mesh. Yeah. So I looked in them, and I may have taken pictures while looking through the hole just to see what it looked like. Um you know, it is what it is. But it wasn't really much to see, so it's not like I'm gonna spoil anything because there wasn't much to see. And then we left. Although I think we went to I think the Lion King was one of the last things we did because when we left there, I got the brownie cookie ice cream sandwich thing.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Which was amazing. It's like, oh yeah, like it's probably I think it's huge. It is huge. I didn't eat the whole thing. Yeah. Um, no, I did not eat the whole thing. It was huge. You're right. I oh my god, it was so good. I I think I put um on our TikTok that if you say Dole Whip is the best snack at Disney, you're wrong because this ice cream bar is just phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

So I again I'll get to this later. I tried a Dole Whip drink, and I don't know about that. This drink was crazy.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

So yeah, then we we left there. The ice cream sandwich was the last thing I did. Priorities. We left there. I don't know, aside from sci-fi, if I ate an actual meal. I ate mostly sci-fi.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

I feel like when you go to Disney though, like that is a lot of what you do, especially like when there's like a lot of stuff happening at Epcot.

SPEAKER_02 36:27

Like Yeah, you hit the booths.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Yeah. Yeah. You just don't really worry about necessarily eating a full meal because if you go to all the booths or some of them, like it's a great way to try different things instead of like you said, getting a full meal.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Yeah. So we left Animal Kingdom, we headed over to Magic Kingdom and got on the ferry because we we drove, got on the ferry boat, went over. That's a lie. We didn't take the ferry boat that time. We took the monorail. Okay. So we took the monorail around, got off, got to Magic Kingdom, and it was just amazing. It's just amazing. I love Magic Kingdom. And we rode Haunted Mansion, which I hadn't done in a long time because of having a toddler. Do you think it would freak her out? I do. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

I don't know if you didn't write it because she can write it. She just don't think she'd write it.

SPEAKER_02 37:18

Yeah, no, I don't think she'd tolerate it well.

SPEAKER_01 37:21

Personally, I do not. It scares me. Which sounds so crazy, and I know that's your favorite ride.

SPEAKER_02 37:28

What you can't see is I'm just shaking my head at Olivia right now because she's just killing.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

Really? Like any other ride. And because it freaks me out.

SPEAKER_02 37:39

Oh, I love it. Yes, it's one of my favorites. I don't think she'd do well on it now. We went to so I don't do well. We live in. Oh my gosh. Then I'm gonna leave her with you next time we go. Just take you with us. Oh we live in Disney Manny. Yes. We live in central Ohio, so we took a day trip down to King's Island. That's what you do. They have they just opened Phantom Theater. It was originally a Phantom Theater. Lots of things came and went between Phantom Theater and what it is now, which is again Phantom Theater. We took her on that, which you are the premise is you're a theater usher and you've got flashlights, and you have to hit like musical notes with your flashlight or whatever. Terrified. Absolutely hated her life. It was it was bad.

SPEAKER_01 38:18

Because it was dark.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

I don't know what it was. But she just she did not like it at all. People around us were trying to get her to calm down. No, she just was not having it. So I got a feeling we got a little bit of time before she's writing the Haunted Mansion.

SPEAKER_01 38:33

And that one, like you're kind of okay, the reason why I just sets me over the edge a little bit is because I got stuck on it going backwards. And so then I'm just sitting there and it's dark and it's creepy and I don't like it. So that's why sometimes it like triggers me. If I can get on, get off, and like take a little nap, then you're good.

SPEAKER_02 38:53

God, you're so funny. What I did notice, so the hat box ghost, which has come and gone numerous times in the haunted mansion for reasons I don't know. He was moved, he was in there, he was moved, he was in by the like the doors. I think the doors before maybe you go into the seance room with Madame Leota. He was standing there where he used to be was after you'd gone through the attic and were turning around to go down into the cemetery. He used to be right there. And so he moved and I was shocked by that. I don't know when that happened, and most people probably don't consider that even a thing, but I sure did.

SPEAKER_01 39:32

And like I fully like I the animatronics and all the details behind it is amazing. Like I will fully give credit to that, but it's just like You are so funny.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

My mom and dad did the Keys to the Kingdom tour. I I got that for him one year for I don't know, their anniversary or some trip. I I booked it for him. I booked something shocking, I know. And in advance. In advance I did. And actually it may not have been in advance, I might have done it the day before or something like that. I can't remember. Anyway, they did the keys to the kingdom tour, and one thing they learned, and I was fascinated by this, when you are going through the attic scene, you've got the picture of the bride and the groom, and the groom disappears. And if you notice, the bride has a pearl necklace, and the pearl necklace gets bigger, like she's only got one pearl necklace on, and then she's got two, and then three, goes up to seven, and that's to represent the seven husbands that had died. Oh. I learned this from my parents going to on the Keys to the Kingdom tour.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 40:33

So now I kind of want to do it because they learned some pretty cool stuff when they did that.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

I think like tours like that is something that we'll probably talk about. But tours like that are amazing. Like when we were in Epcot, there was a tour going through um Living with the Land.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

I feel like I really want to do the behind the seeds tour. Yeah. Because I love living with the land.

SPEAKER_01 40:55

I don't know how exciting that could be, but I want-my mom has a shirt that says I'm just here for the lettuce.

SPEAKER_02 41:00

I need that shirt. I've seen it here recently, and I'm like, oh my god, I want it. Yeah. We want that shirt. So anyway, we Haunted Mansion, we did Peter Pan, Small World, any of those. We did Small World. We did do Small World. Nothing new there. It was the same old, same old.

SPEAKER_01 41:16

So I don't know if it's the one that's at Walt Disney World, but it might be the one at Disneyland. But when it opened, I'm pretty sure it was Disneyland. Because I think Walt was there. But I have heard that people from all different countries, children, poured water into like, so that's really cool to just like and obviously like they probably had to add water and whatever else. But it's really cool that that was something that he really cared about. Yeah. You know, he meaning Walt.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

You know, since I've been out to Disneyland and I've rode the one at Disneyland, and you'll learn this when you go to Disneyland. There are some things at Disneyland that you will like so much better than at Disney World. Pirates of the Caribbean. That's what I was gonna say.

SPEAKER_01 42:01

One of them I've heard is pirates.

SPEAKER_02 42:03

That's the big one.

SPEAKER_01 42:04

I've never been to Disneyland. I'm gonna change that trip that we're gonna go on.

SPEAKER_02 42:08

Yeah, I'm gonna change that. I'm definitely going to change that. Yes, I'm gonna change that. And then Small World. Not because it's vastly different, it really isn't, but they have characters from the movies in the ride. So, like when you're going through like the Middle Eastern type of scene, there's a flying carpet with Aladdin and Jasmine on it. And there's a spot where you see Pinocchio and Geppetto. And I want to say there's Alice in the White Rabbit.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

And all of the dolls are handmade. There's a woman that makes them all, and I don't remember her name right now, but there is a behind the scenes again documentary on Disney Plus, and they go through different things through Walt Disney World, and one of them is The Small World, and she talks about how she made all of them. It's really it's really cool actually. That's awesome. My mom watches this stuff like 24 seconds.

SPEAKER_02 43:05

Is that the is that the the imagineering documentary we watched?

SPEAKER_01 43:10

I think there's that, and then there's also like one that's like behind the something. I have to think about it.

SPEAKER_02 43:15

Behind the attraction. Yes. I think I'm thinking of the exact same one. Yes. I just wanted to call it Imagineering, and that's not right. Those if you've never watched those documentaries and you love Disney, I encourage you to do it. Yeah, those are so much stuff. So my favorite little tidbit that I learned there, we did ride jungle cruise, but one of my favorite things from those documentaries behind the attraction is when they were building the jungle cruise in California at Anaheim. Walt actually took a twig and he walked around what he wanted the the essential track for lack of a better term to be that these boats would run on. And that is actually what they use.

SPEAKER_01 43:53

And it's like so cool.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

That is the coolest thing. It's why I love Disneyland so much.

SPEAKER_01 43:57

That's what I think like Disneyland, you have to go in again, like. With a different mindset, it's not going to be as big as Walt Disney World. There's no possible way. But if you go in thinking like Walt walked the property, Walt had so much actual like hands-on like things with Disneyland. It that's just something that makes you want to go. Like it makes me want to like go right now, type of thing.

SPEAKER_02 44:20

Yeah, that's why I love it as much as I do. Is I'm I I think Walt Disney's just a fascinating human being. And I've read books on him and seen documentaries and stuff like that. And it's you know, it's one reason why I love Disneyland as much as I do. They're very different. You you can't compare them. Everybody tries to, they're just they're very different. Same premise, just very different.

SPEAKER_01 44:42

And I think that's the same thing if you go across ungood. Comparison stuff.

SPEAKER_02 44:47

Yeah, yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_01 44:48

Bucket list trip.

SPEAKER_02 44:49

Yeah, add that one to it. So we did the jungle cruise. Our guide on the jungle cruise was hysterical.

SPEAKER_01 44:56

Really?

SPEAKER_02 44:57

Hysterical.

SPEAKER_01 44:58

I feel like they sometimes hit or miss. Sometimes. Yep. Like sometimes you get really good guides, and then sometimes it's like they just say the same jokes that everybody else does, you know? No, it's just like that. And it's like I just I don't know. Sometimes like it's really good, and sometimes it's like, okay, I could have skipped it.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

Oh no, he was so he was so funny. I have I videoed almost the entire thing. He just had me laughing the whole time. He was funny. And he was just he was just good. He was a he was a a good a good driver, a good captain. And we we liked him. We liked him a lot. He was good. So we did that. And then we did Buzz Lightyear, the new one. And you liked it. We were there when it opened. Yeah. Yeah, I I think it was a definitely an improvement from the original. The the lasers and the guns are two different colors now, so you can see who's shooting what. Oh, good. So that was nice. The lasers actually work, which was also nice. They move, so it's it they used to be kind of attached to the bar thing, and they now move. Like you can get them out and move them. So that was fun. The scenes are a little bit different. There's some scenes that are very much similar, but again, some that are are very different. There's a whole scene with Zerg now on it. So so it was that was fun.

SPEAKER_01 46:16

And then you watched the fireworks, and did you watch the light creep? We did, we did. So did you sorry, did you ride any other rides like Space Mountain? I rode Space Mountain. I rode Space Mountain. Because I got a lightning line.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

Yep, we I rode Space Mountain. So the other things I read was Space Mountain and Pirates.

SPEAKER_01 46:38

Did you ride People Mover?

SPEAKER_02 46:39

We did ride the People Mover. I thought you had a video. I love the People Mover. One of my favorites. Don't ever skip that ride, it's the best. We also saw the Country Bears. It's a good break too. Like it's a good relaxing. Yeah, it's one of my one of my favorites. We saw The Country Bears.

SPEAKER_01 46:53

Did you ride Tiana's by you?

SPEAKER_02 46:55

We did not.

SPEAKER_01 46:56

I love that ride. Everybody has like a very big hot take on that. Like people don't like the ride because it's like not Tiana, but I really do like that ride. Yeah. But I think it's also, it is I that is like my one of my favorite princess movies. And then if it's live action, I like Cinderella. So I think also I just really like it because of that.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

But I you know, there's a generation of us, me included, again, where we're different. Because I love Splash Mountain. It was I remember when Splash Mountain opened.

SPEAKER_00 47:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:25

If that tells you anything. Don't age me with that, but you know, and and I remember I have so many fond memories of riding it like with an entire boat full. Like, I think I was no, I guess I was 15. We took a big trip. My grandmother had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, it was her favorite place. And so we all wanted to take one last trip with grandma. And there were probably close to 20, 25 of us that went, and we packed that boat. There were, it was my my brother and my aunt, and I took a friend on that trip in the front row. And then it was my cousin, my cousin Rob, their little boy, Michael, and then my cousin Lola in the next row. And then my dad and my uncle Dave in the third row, and then my uncle, and then me and my aunt in the very back row. So we had 11 of us in that boat. I was a tight squeeze in that boat. We're lucky that boat didn't sink, but it was so much fun. Oh, it sure did. We have video of it. It's or not video, we have the pictures from it. Like we all had to buy the pictures. It was just great. Because that was the day we all dressed alike too, so we're all in baby blue shirts. It was just the funniest thing. Yeah. But so that's, you know, I'm I understand them having to kind of grow and and adjust as as the generations are changing, but boy, did I love Splash Mountain. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:42

And we have memories on it.

SPEAKER_02 48:44

I do. I do. So we so I did not ride that. Thunder Mountain wasn't open quite yet. I know it's starting to open if it hasn't already. It has. It has. So I didn't ride that. The train we learned, I learned, goes from the front back to storybook circus and then back around. That's all it does, is it just goes back and forth. It doesn't go around the whole park. I wanna say I rode The Little Mermaid. I might be wrong. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_01 49:12

What was the ride that I was gonna ask you? Oh, Snow White. Seven dwarfs.

SPEAKER_02 49:18

Oh nope, didn't write seven dwarfs, mind train. That is one. But unless I have a fast pass four, I can skip. It doesn't bother me. Really?

SPEAKER_01 49:24

I love that ride. I think the Q's cute too.

SPEAKER_02 49:27

The Q is cute. The Q's super fun. It's one of the best Q's, but it's again, I don't unless I have a Fast Pass, I really don't write anything. Lightning Lane, I don't write anything.

SPEAKER_01 49:35

That's all the rides that we did at Magic Kingdom. So what did you guys eat too? Did you just spring rolls?

SPEAKER_02 49:41

I did get spring rolls. I learned something about the spring rolls. Which is, I was very concerned I was gonna miss those, by the way. So we we saw the light parade. Again, happened to walk up and had a great seat, um, which was great. We which is where I got to see Peter Pan and Wendy flying, which was amazing. And that's a video on our. Yep, yep, it was so great. That was that was a really fun, fun part of that show. I was so excited to see it. Anyway, we and I sat next to we sat next to a guy and a little girl. This is a fun story. Guy and a little girl. She was probably three, three years old, three, maybe four, right around the same age as my kiddo. And she, you know, I was talking to her, I was playing with her and whatnot. Because we had about 10-15 minutes till it came by and she was getting a little restless. And got to talking to her, and or before I started playing with her, I overheard her dad say something about, well, mom's gonna be coming here soon. You'll see her here soon in the parade.

SPEAKER_01 50:42

Mom's gonna be coming?

SPEAKER_02 50:44

I right? So I almost gave myself whiplash turning, and I said, Did you just say what I think you said? And he said, Yeah, and I said, Your wife's in the parade? And he goes, Yeah, she's a dancer in the parade. So this is the first time that the parade was early enough that his little girl that she was gonna be in the parade early enough that she could see it.

SPEAKER_01 51:06

Imagine growing up and your mom is in a Disney.

SPEAKER_02 51:09

Well, hold on, this story gets better. So I got video of the mom dancing because you know, you could see when the little girl got excited and the mom kind of came over and whatever and played with the little girl. It was so sweet. But before all of this, I was still talking to the guy and I was like, oh my god, that's the coolest thing. I wish I would have, you know, moved down to Disney and done the college program and was just talking to him. And he then looks at me and he goes, Oh yeah, I perform over at The Lion King. I said, excuse me.

SPEAKER_01 51:35

That's he said, not just my mom. My parents work for Disney and are like that is cool.

SPEAKER_02 51:42

Yeah, he said, I work, I do the Lion King show. And I said, Are you serious right now? And he said, Yeah. He goes, he's done it for a while, and he's a stilt walker. And I said, That is the coolest thing I've ever heard in my life. That's amazing. And I said, I saw that this morning. He goes, Well, I wasn't in it this morning. And I said, Good to know. I wouldn't have guessed, but here we are. But it was so that was really fun because you know, I just chatted with him a little bit on his experience working with at Disney, and that was fun. They both worked in the theater department. So we had a great, great seat for that. It was fun, it was a good parade. A lot of like the a lot of newer things to it. So like there was a float with Coco. Okay. And I was trying to I was trying to think of some of the other I know Coco was the one that really stuck out as being like a newer movie that I've never seen afloat before.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:31

Anyway, so we we did that, that was super fun. And after that, we walked back to do because we had a fast pass for five for pirates. So I was like, oh my gosh, I almost forgot my spring rolls. I hope it's still open, I hope it's still open, I hope it's still open. And we get back there. It is, thank god. And I get mine, and I was talking to the person ringing me out, and I said, I was so scared I was gonna miss my spring rolls, which would have been a disaster.

SPEAKER_01 52:55

Yeah. And you would not have accomplished your day.

SPEAKER_02 52:59

I I wouldn't have, and I would have been so incredibly sad, it would have been horrible. And they told me, for all of you, so keep this in mind when you're there and you need your spring rolls, the pizza ones or the hamburger ones. We did the hamburger, they were delicious as always. Is the cart closes when the fireworks start. So up until that point, they're open. And I was like, oh thank god. So we got our got our spring rolls, road pirates, and then we came back out, and we're getting to the front, like getting there close to time that the fireworks were gonna go, and again, because there were two of us and we didn't mind separating a little bit, like he stood a little bit behind me or whatever. We had a great spot to watch the fireworks too. And then we left. And it was fun.

SPEAKER_01 53:43

Yeah. And then you had a flight back home the next day.

SPEAKER_02 53:46

Oh my god, the butt crack at on. Yeah, it was early. And now you've heard about my whirlwind 48-hour trip to Disney World just a couple weeks ago. And next week we get to dive into Olivia's trip to Disney Springs and a couple Disney resorts and Epcot that same week that I happened to be there. So be sure to tune in because you're not gonna want to miss hearing about what she did, how she navigated the parks, because I can tell you it was very different from how I did my whirlwind weekend at Disney. I have already seen pictures and it looked like she had so much fun, got to try some really great drinks and food, and I just really can't wait to hear all about it straight from her. So we will be back next week, and until then, go out there and chase your dreams.