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49. Your Disney New Year’s Resolutions: Disney-fied Goals to Make This Year More Magical · Mom Street USA

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  Welcome everybody to Mom St. USA.
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  My name is Jackie AKA Wishes Mama, and joining me is my
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  wonderful Co host. Kate AKA the Disney.
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  Cisrone and This is our first podcast episode of 2024 which is
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  super exciting and we've got a pretty fun topic for you all
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  Today. We are going to be talking about
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  how to make your resolutions a little Disney themed Disney fie
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  them a little bit so to speak and also talking about some
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  bucket list items for visiting the Disney parks.
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  So Kate, how's it going in 2024? It's good.
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  The year started off great so far and I'm I'm excited for
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  everything that's to come. I spent like 2 hours booking all
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  of my vacations, vacations, my work trips to Disney for the
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  year. So I'm very excited to have a
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  lot of those done and I'm I'm, it's really interesting because
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  you know, I think that you and I have have talked about this,
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  that we wrestle a little bit with the idea of resolutions and
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  like everybody, I think statistically people drop the
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  resolutions by like February 15th is when they stop doing
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  them or stop working towards them.
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  So you know, I like the idea of this is like some of this like
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  it's resolutions but it's also like bucket list items.
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  It's kind of like thinking about things that you would love to do
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  at Disney or integrating new fun new Disney things into your life
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  at home. So it's not just going to the
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  parks because we know not all of us can afford that right now and
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  we get that right. So, So I love that you kind of
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  came up with this idea and I thought it was so clever.
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  And so do you want to kind of introduce us into our first
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  topic? Yeah.
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  So basically what I've done and Kate has contributed as well is
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  we've kind of taken some of the typical resolutions that maybe
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  you hear people talk about. These are by no means an end all
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  be all list of different resolutions that people have.
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  These are just kind of ones that themes that tend to be thrown
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  around when you're looking at New Year's resolutions and we
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  just, we put a Disney spin on them.
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  So we're going to talk about several of these resolutions and
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  how you can Disney fie them. That's just like the term that I
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  keep using for all of this. I think it's fun.
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  So we're going to talk about all of those and maybe something
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  will apply to a goal that you've set or resolution that you've
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  set, If that's something that you like to do and obviously no
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  shade or anything to people who don't set resolutions.
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  There's lots of different ways you can go about the new year.
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  That's totally fine. Yeah.
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  If you're feeling overwhelmed in general with life and you're
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  like, I can't, this is like one more stress that I can't take.
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  Like, that's OK Like, don't feel the pressure.
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  This is, this is pressure free zone.
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  This is all fun. Yeah, this is like, how can you
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  add a little bit more fun and magic into your goals,
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  resolutions and your year? So that's what we're doing.
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  Absolutely. So let's jump into the first
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  one. I think this is probably one of
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  those resolutions goals themes that we see the most frequently
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  I would say and that is something along the lines of
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  exercising more, getting in shape, losing weight if that's
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  your goal, being healthier, any of those types of in that
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  category. So a couple things to make that
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  kind of a little bit more fun in Disney.
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  Obviously the big one we'll talk about first right off the bat is
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  run Disney. That exists for those of us or
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  those of you who maybe enjoy. This I've.
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  Done one run Disney event in my life.
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  It was a long time ago, but we walk Disney.
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  I walk. I do a lot to walking.
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  That's true. So run Disney events for anybody
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  who maybe is not familiar with them are 5K's, 10K's half
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  marathons, marathons that are sanctioned by Disney on Disney
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  property, they do take place on in both Disney World and
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  Disneyland. Disney World tends to have more
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  often runs. I think they just they have more
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  space to do them where it's not like the same course over and
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  over again. You've got less space kind of to
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  do that in Disneyland. So Disney World tends to have
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  more, but a couple of things that are still that are actually
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  coming up fairly soon. If that's something that you're
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  like, I want to start my year off by doing it.
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  Props to you. The there are a couple of
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  virtual races, actually several virtual races that they have, so
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  that is a really nice option. If you're like I can't get to
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  the parks to physically run in the parks, there are several
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  virtual options that you can do. You still have to like pay the
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  registration fee, but then they will like mail you your
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  hardware, like your metal or whatever, which I think is super
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  fun. I did one of these like a series
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  of these during the pandemic when everything was closed down
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  and it was super fun to get those medals in the mail.
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  I was like, yay. I would be like, I'd sign up for
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  it and then I'd forget and then I would be like, and then they'd
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  send me a medal and then I'd have that guilt and then just
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  didn't do it. So that's how that would go down
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  and that's why I haven't done it.
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  That's also fair, completely valid.
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  So if you're someone who's like, oh man, I really want to do
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  this, like in your gung ho and you're ready to go, the Virtual
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  race for the Disney Princess Half Marathon is actually still
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  half Marathon weekend is still available.
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  So that oh, I just looked at my date that I wrote on here and I
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  wrote the 23rd through the 35th. That's not.
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  Right 35th, 3030, fifth. Yeah, that's really wrong.
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  But that Princess Half Marathon weekend is February 23rd through
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  the 25th, so you can actually register for that on the Run
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  Disney website. It is a separate website from
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  like your typical Disney World website.
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  If you do a quick Google for Run Disney, it'll pop right up if
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  you're looking for it. So that registration is open
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  now. And also the Springtime Surprise
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  virtual race, which the Springtime Surprise takes place
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  April 19th through the 21st that is also available now.
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  So there are three virtual races.
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  I don't. Is there the surprises?
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  We don't know what the surprise. Is I don't.
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  Know I never thought about the name until you just asked.
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  So I got nothing. The surprise is you'll get in
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  shape or not, depending. Surprises if you finish or not,
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  I guess. No, no, I'm not really sure.
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  But anyway, all three of those virtual races are like
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  registration is now open. Now, the physical in person
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  races for those three weekends are no longer available to
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  register for. So the thing about run Disney,
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  when you're not looking at the virtual side of things recently,
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  especially some of these races can be really tricky to get
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  registered for because there is such a large portion of the run
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  community that enjoys doing these Disney races so.
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  Well, and they all dress up. That's like the best part.
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  They have like they have costume standards so you have to be
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  careful not to like go out of those.
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  But like the costumes are the my favorite part of this event.
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  Everybody gets themed costumes so great.
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  They're super fun. Absolutely.
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  So there are a couple coming up that you have that are in person
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  that you have to register for. Again, I will warn you they can
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  be really tricky to register for them.
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  So just like, prepare your. Be on your game, Yeah, in 2024.
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  And like have a backup plan like if you want to do the 10K make
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  sure you have like a backup plan of you want to do the 5K or the
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  half or you know what I mean like have have a couple options
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  would be my suggestion but there is oh I forgot a virtual I'm
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  sorry my bad there is just a whole virtual race coming up for
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  all of run Disney too that is taking place June 1st through
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  August 31st. I'm yeah, So that registration
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  ends March 26th. So it's open now, but it and it
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  goes, it's open all the way until March 26th.
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  Now, I'll be honest, I don't know how frequently these
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  virtual races sell out. I don't know if Disney caps it
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  because they still provide the medals and everything.
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  So I would assume there's a cap to them.
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  But I will be honest with you, I'm not exactly sure what that
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  is. Yeah, I don't know either.
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  So if someone knows and can tell us, that'd be great, but if not,
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  make sure you register sooner rather than later.
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  More moral of the story, but there are a couple coming up in
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  person. A new this year is Disneyland is
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  doing a Halloween half marathon in September, so that is
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  September 5th through the 8th, and they're the registration for
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  that is on February 13th. So that is one that you have to
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  be like on your computer on the 13th, ready to go right when it
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  opens up, so that way you can get registered for that one.
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  I have a question from Rhonda. Is there any Walt Disney events?
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  Like a serious one? I made a joke about it but I
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  don't. I don't think so 5.
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  K's are like Walker friendly. That's what I was going to say
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  is like some of the ones that are lower, I think you can just
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  walk and they they're not going to be like you're not running.
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  Yes, you know, so. That, like the 5K's and maybe
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  even the 10K's are a little more lenient if you have a quick
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  walking pace, but there there's nothing like specifically set
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  for fast walking or walking through those that I know of.
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  Yeah, Margaret and her chat says.
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  You just have to be in front of the balloon ladies, so you just
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  can't go so slow that like you're behind the end of the
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  race, so to speak. Yes, yeah, absolutely.
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  With that and Disney dad bought over here is saying there's no
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  cap to the virtual. So good, excellent.
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  Yeah, so there you go. And yeah, Taylor saying the 5K
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  is family and Walker friendly. The rest you have to have a 16
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  per minute, 16 minute per mile pace.
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  Excellent. See, we always know somebody's
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  going to know that. Well, and they give you some
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  leniency in these races because there are characters along the
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  way. So they give you some time
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  because they they anticipate that people are going to stop
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  and have to wait in some lines to get character photos.
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  Yeah, 'cause they actually pull out some really cool, unique
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  characters for all of these. So yeah, sometimes you get to go
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  kind of like behind the scenes, too, and like the backstage
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  areas that you run through. So that's always really fun.
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  Yeah, super, super fun. So that is the Disneyland
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  Halloween Half Marathon. A standard one that we've had
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  for years is the Disney Wine and Dine Half Marathon that is
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  October 31st through November 3rd.
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  And I saw that date and I was like, on Halloween, the parks
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  are going to be so busy. Oh yeah, And the traffic's going
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  to be bad, yeah. So be warned.
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  If you're going over Halloween, be warned.
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  Anytime there's yeah, anytime there is a Run Disney event too,
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  even if you're not participating in a run Disney event, you know
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  that the traffic is going to be bad.
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  There's going to be roads that are probably blocked off and
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  it's there's going to be extra crowds in the parks as well for
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  that that time. So just keep that in it in
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  account. So these dates are important
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  even if you're not participating in a Run Disney event.
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  Yes. And the registration for the
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  wine and dine is March 12th, so that is 1 to keep in mind in
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  your calendar if you're interested in that.
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  Didn't say what time these began, did we?
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  Did you look that up? I know it's like the
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  registration, is that the no. Like the time, I think for the
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  races. So most of the races, you have
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  to be in your corral, like within the 4:00 AM hour.
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  And they all happen before Park open.
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  Yeah. So, like, you'll be like, you
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  run through the parks, but you're out of the parks by Park
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  open. Yeah.
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  So it's kind of a middle of the night kind of a thing.
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  So Yep, Yep. Waking up at 23 AM to get there
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  on time. Yeah.
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  Yeah, it's a thing. It's a it's a thing.
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  I would just stay up. I just wouldn't go to bed.
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  Yeah, you got to you got to make that decision, right?
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  Like, do you stay up, or do you attempt to get your body to go
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  to bed early enough to make it worth it?
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  Yeah, I just don't do it. Problem solved.
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  Just kidding. I would probably do a virtual
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  one if I could just walk it. I think that's really fun, no?
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  Yeah, absolutely. So then there's a whole set of
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  virtual 12 K's that are coming up in December that are called
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  the 12 K's of Christmas, which I think is really fun.
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  So it's literally a whole set of them that happened throughout
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  the month of December that you have to register by July 9th for
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  that set. And then new this year they did
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  a Coast to Coast challenge, which I think is super fun.
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  Now they've done variations of this in the past, but this year
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  in 2024 if you complete any 10 mile race or longer at both
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  Disney World and Disneyland in the same calendar year, you will
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  receive a Run Disney Coast to Coast Race Challenge medal.
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  Oh, that's cool. Yeah, I love that.
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  Yeah. So there's lots of more details
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  about that on the Run Disney website as far as like which
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  races qualify. And like I said, it has to be 10
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  miles or more. So like, they have some that are
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  like 10 milers, you know? So like, you got to go and look
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  at the details for that. And I do know that it's not like
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  a separate like registration, it's like an automatic.
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  Oh, that's neat. Thing that they like just give
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  to you. So that is super fun with that
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  one. So then, so I think that's, I
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  think that's all of them. The website had a lot of like
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  also 2025 and I kept writing down the wrong date, so I was
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  like, wait, that's not 2024, but they're also earning it.
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  Listen. But there's also 2025 dates that
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  have been released too. So if you know that you're not
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  going to make it to the parks in 2024, but when I'm playing for
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  2025, those dates are all on like the home page of Run
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  Disney. So you can find them on there if
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  you're looking for those dates. That's awesome.
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  It's a great time of year too. Like everybody's kind of, you
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  know, working off the holiday calories and getting in shape
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  and whatnot and and having those resolutions.
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  So that's a fun one. I did add a couple of thoughts.
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  See the exercise, more resolution, how you can make it
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  more Disney fied. As for using that word, one is
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  making a Disney playlist for a walk at home.
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  So either if you're doing going on a treadmill, if you're at the
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  gym, or if you're, you know, walking in neighborhood or
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  wherever you're walking, making your own kind of Disney playlist
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  that you know matches your pace and whatnot.
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  And and then it's like it's a fun little extra way to have
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  some music you love while you're doing that.
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  And along those same lines, walk or run on a treadmill and you
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  can watch Disney streamers or you do depending on what you
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  want to, you know, today and who's around and all those kinds
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  of things. But you can watch that, you
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  know, videos at the park. So it's kind of like you're
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  walking or running through the parks as you're as you're doing
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  that. So that's just in a little extra
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  fun way of of making a little extra Disney magic magic while
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  you're getting steps in. And the other thing that I was
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  actually looking up and this is inspired, this has a back story.
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  I'm sorry, this is inspired by me scrolling TikTok at like 3:00
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  AM when I should be sleeping, like we all do sometimes.
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  And there was, I don't know, some girls or something that
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  were doing the some sort of dance like every day to like get
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  fit. And it was the one of those,
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  like, just yeah, I for sure got myself off of the chair to do it
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  with them and like, nearly died by the end of it.
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  But. That that's just hard.
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  It is. Hard.
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  I did like a modified version because I'm old, but it was, it
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  was fun, you know, and it's free and nobody saw me.
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  But I was like, gosh, this is such a great idea.
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  So many people have posted that was like just if you don't own
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  the game or anything, like they've posted the Just Dance on
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  YouTube and there's a lot of Disney ones, so you can just.
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  Find search on YouTube for Disney Just Dance and just have
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  fun dancing and it's a fun one to do with your kids too and
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  kids really love doing that one. So yeah, so additional tangent.
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  When I taught, when I used to teach music, one of like we
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  would do like Fun Fridays on occasion and I would take in
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  like my old like the original Wii with the like with the
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  controllers and on my board we would do Just Dance.
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  And I had two different Disney games that I would take because
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  I knew that they would be like school appropriate for the kids
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  to be able to do. And we would that was part of
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  their Fun Fridays as we would like through the class we would
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  take turns doing the Wii and doing Just Dance.
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  So it's great and it was super fun and they loved it because
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  like they got to do it on the big board in the in in my
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  classroom. It was.
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  It was good times. No, I love that.
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  That's great. That's so.
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  That's a great one. I love that idea.
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  I know, I was like, they totally inspired it.
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  It was not my original idea, but I was like, hey, like this.
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  I would totally do that just to get my body moving, especially
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  when I sit all the time for. Work.
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  So yeah, and there are lots of other like Disney inspired like
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  workout videos on YouTube and there's Zumba or you know all of
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  those kinds of things that are like all Disney themed.
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  So just search on YouTube and you'll find what you're looking
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  for I'm sure. Yeah, most of it's not, doesn't
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  cost anything. So it's a nice one too for if
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  you're budget conscious and you can't afford maybe some of these
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  other things. So absolutely.
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  Yes, OK. So I think that kind of in a
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  nutshell is the exercise, lose weight, move your body, be
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  healthy type of type of resolution.
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  So let's look at our second one that we have here.
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  Again, these are just kind of the like standard traditional
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  resolutions that we hear a lot of people talk about.
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  And this one is travel more, which is kind of a given when
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  you're thinking about Disney and making that kind of Disney
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  related. But we we added a couple things
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  on here that maybe you didn't think about when you were
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  thinking about traveling more. The first one, again obvious is
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  visiting Epcot and World Showcase.
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  There's so much that you can learn about other countries and
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  other cultures and all that kind of stuff.
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  So just a few things that I feel like are often overlooked in
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  World Showcase. There are so many different like
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  shows and videos and like movie kind of little shorts that you
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  can go and see while you're in World Showcase.
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  The American Adventure, which I was thinking as I was writing
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  this, it was down for read, preferred for a while, but I
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  think it's back open now. I don't know, but it is really
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  long, so just take that into account when you go to it.
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  It's extremely long show. So it's a wonderful show and I
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  100% recommend it, but it's a very long show so be committed.
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  It's a great place to get out of the heat for a while and relax
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  and some people taken out, but that's then you miss the
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  education part of it, so. That that kind of defeats the
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  purpose. Then you had to sit through it a
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  second time to actually, like, write the information.
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  Don't do that but there is the Canada far and wide video and
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  they can't can in the Canada pavilion, my mouth was not
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  having a good time with that right that's sorry.
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  In the France pavilion there is Impressions de France that you
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  can go and they they like alternate that one with Beauty
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  and the Beast and get along so it's like 1 or the other.
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  So you have to kind of like time it just right to get to it.
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  Yeah. And all of these have, like
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  showtimes and information about showtimes that you can look up,
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  if that's what you want to do. All of the Kid Kot stations, if
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  you've got kiddos that you're wanting to also have learned
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  about other cultures and get maybe a little bit of
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  information, it's not a ton, but a little bit of information
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  about the different countries. They've got all those Kid Kot
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  stations for the kiddos. The Reflections of China show in
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  the video in the China pavilion. And then Kate, you added about
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  something in the Japan pavilion. Do you want to tell us about
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  that? Yeah.
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  Before I launch into that, I will mention too like there's a
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  there's some displays in China of like some Imagineering stuff
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  as well that's really cool in different countries around the
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  world so that they've worked in. So that's really fun to to see.
• 20:26
  And then there's a history of, oh, I'm going to get it wrong
• 20:31
  Kawaii, like the the cute Japanese cute stuff.
• 20:36
  Like they had a little Museum of that too, that you can go and
• 20:38
  explore that. But something that I'm actually
• 20:42
  think I'm going to do for the first time ever, this next trip
• 20:44
  to Disney is get a Pearl in the Japanese pavilion.
• 20:48
  I've always seen it. I've seen it for years.
• 20:50
  I've just like never done it. So there's a place called Akoya
• 20:54
  Pearls inside the Mitsukoshi store.
• 20:58
  And so it's 1895 per ticket and you get a ticket and they kind
• 21:02
  of like thing like call your number I guess and call your
• 21:04
  name that's from what I've seen. And then they'll open a Pearl or
• 21:08
  an oyster in front of you and then they'll like find a Pearl.
• 21:11
  And I guess every single oyster they have has a Pearl in it,
• 21:13
  which is not true to nature. It's usually one in every like
• 21:16
  10,000 oysters have a Pearl, but they've kind of like I was
• 21:20
  trying to try to figure out how they know that they.
• 21:22
  X-ray them. Like how to think you would have
• 21:24
  to you probably have to X-ray it, because how else would you
• 21:27
  know for sure that there's one inside?
• 21:30
  Yeah, because they're literally cutting them open and like
• 21:33
  they're not pre opened when you get like when you watch them do
• 21:36
  it right. So I think it's really fun when
• 21:40
  it's for 1895 that's that's a pretty cheap souvenir for busy,
• 21:43
  you know, and then you can choose the jewelry is a little
• 21:46
  bit more expensive if you want to have it mounted inside some
• 21:49
  piece of jewelry or you can just take the Pearl home and then
• 21:52
  that's your souvenir. So I thought that was a really
• 21:54
  interesting one because there's a lot of they have history
• 21:56
  that's posted in that area as well about the history of the
• 21:59
  women that would dive to get the pearls in Japan.
• 22:01
  So very, very interesting part of that culture that then you
• 22:04
  can learn in Japan, so. And that's true, Grace says.
• 22:08
  They may be like Grove them there.
• 22:11
  Like, and that's what Rhonda said, she said.
• 22:13
  They insert a grain of sandwich that oyster then coats then and
• 22:17
  then equals Pearl. So that's how you get it.
• 22:19
  So that that makes so much more sense than X raying them.
• 22:23
  Thanks for that. Sally Beth is over here
• 22:25
  volunteering to be the X-ray Technician for the oysters.
• 22:29
  In the Japan pavilion. So maybe they still need one.
• 22:34
  He never got that. That makes me more sense.
• 22:36
  But that's really fun. So and they have like some ones
• 22:40
  that are more rare than others and stuff like there's all sorts
• 22:43
  of different like. Colors and shades and stuff for
• 22:46
  those, I think too, yeah. When I went to China, like the
• 22:49
  actual China when I was a million years ago and I went to
• 22:54
  like a Pearl store, and then they showed us all the different
• 22:57
  kinds. And then I my, my mom bought me
• 22:59
  like a like a black Pearl, which is really cool.
• 23:01
  So. Which now reminds me of Disney
• 23:04
  too. So it's good.
• 23:05
  It all comes full circle back to Disney, right?
• 23:09
  Right. And the other spot that I had
• 23:11
  written down was the. And I'm sure it's not just Stav.
• 23:14
  I'm sure there's a different way to say it in the Norwegian
• 23:17
  language, but the Stav Church Gallery in Norway I.
• 23:20
  Always say stave. That's probably not right.
• 23:22
  I don't know, I'm not sure, so apologies, but but they've got
• 23:26
  that gallery of kind of different artifacts and things
• 23:30
  in the Norway pavilion as well. So lots of different places that
• 23:34
  you can go throughout and we probably didn't like.
• 23:36
  Kate mentioned a couple others, we probably didn't even list all
• 23:38
  of the different little. Places that you can learn about
• 23:41
  the different countries in World Showcase, Yeah.
• 23:44
  And I would say that church in Norway is like the big wooden
• 23:47
  structure that you see is the church.
• 23:49
  And a lot of people don't know you can go in there like that.
• 23:52
  It doesn't is there's no, like obvious signs.
• 23:54
  Most people just walk right by it.
• 23:55
  So go in there, walk through it. There's lots of cool things
• 23:58
  there that you can see. And that that church is like one
• 24:01
  of the oldest churches in the in like in Norway.
• 24:04
  That's why it's modeled after that.
• 24:05
  So there's a lot more history than that.
• 24:08
  I won't get into it. I won't have time.
• 24:09
  So very cool though. So an idea that I had if it's a
• 24:14
  really simple one and actually really fun way to interact with
• 24:16
  the cast members is learning how to say hello and goodbye or just
• 24:20
  one or the other in each country.
• 24:21
  Because they they finally have the like cultural
• 24:24
  representatives back at Epcot, which if you don't know what
• 24:28
  those are, is just people that come from the actual country and
• 24:30
  they come and work there. So they they they speak English
• 24:33
  too. That's kind of like they have to
• 24:35
  do to work there. But they also can speak their
• 24:38
  language So you can ask them how to say hello and goodbye which
• 24:41
  is also really fun for kids as well I think to to hear that and
• 24:46
  then I also just one is trying foods from different cultures
• 24:50
  while walking around the world seems really obvious especially
• 24:52
  in Epcot and with all the food festivals.
• 24:54
  But I I really loved trying the school bread and the rice.
• 24:58
  It's not rice pudding. It's like rice something.
• 25:00
  Rice pudding, rice cream. I think it's what it is.
• 25:04
  I don't remember. I know what you're.
• 25:05
  Talking about rice pudding, it's in the Norway pavilion.
• 25:09
  They have those two and actually I I did a little comparison of
• 25:11
  them when I was live and that was really fun to do to try
• 25:15
  something that was kind of authentic to that culture ish,
• 25:18
  you know, as you can get in America, right.
• 25:20
  So that's a that's a fun one. Yeah, and it's fun when they do.
• 25:23
  You know the food booths too. You've got there's so much food
• 25:26
  already in Epcot that is so like specific to each country that
• 25:30
  you're in. Then they had the food booths in
• 25:31
  too. It's very overwhelming.
• 25:33
  But picking out just a few that you maybe haven't tried before
• 25:37
  or that is new to you can be a super fun way to learn more
• 25:41
  about the palette of the country that you're visiting.
• 25:45
  That's true. And the other thing that I did
• 25:47
  think of, if you want to travel the world without like traveling
• 25:51
  the world at Disney, if you go to Animal Kingdom, in many of
• 25:56
  the ride queues there, they feature actual antiques from
• 26:00
  Imagineers who did like scouting research expeditions to those
• 26:04
  countries while they were learning how they wanted to
• 26:07
  design the attractions. So they came back with a lot of
• 26:10
  antiques that they put on display.
• 26:13
  I think one of the most prominent ones is Kali River
• 26:14
  Rapids and Expedition Everest come to mind as like you love
• 26:18
  the places that have a lot of antiques in those queues.
• 26:21
  So if you only ever do single rider on Expedition Everest or
• 26:25
  like Lightning Lane someday, stay in the standby queue just
• 26:28
  so you can see those antiques because it's worth it.
• 26:30
  Yeah, I you like to see history and antiques and.
• 26:33
  Yeah, You started to talk about that.
• 26:35
  And I was like, Oh my gosh, I don't remember the last time I
• 26:37
  stood in the standby queue for Everest because like my whole
• 26:42
  family doesn't really go on it. So like we usually use single
• 26:44
  rider or Lightning lane just to like make it quick.
• 26:48
  And now next time I go I I need to do that.
• 26:51
  Yeah, I do too. It's been a long time.
• 26:53
  So, well, do you want to talk about the next thing in the
• 26:57
  travel resolution category? Yes.
• 26:59
  So this one was one that I had fun kind of looking into.
• 27:04
  So I had heard about this and this is Adventures by Disney.
• 27:07
  So if you didn't know, these are basically Disney LED excursions
• 27:14
  so to speak in lots of different places around the world.
• 27:18
  They're not all park related. Actually very few of them are
• 27:21
  parks related. It's more just like travel and
• 27:26
  it's sponsored by Disney. So they have oh gosh, seven
• 27:31
  different regions or different like options that you can choose
• 27:36
  from and so many different places that you can go.
• 27:39
  Now these are on the more pricey side because it's it's like all
• 27:45
  inclusive to an extent where when you start to look at prices
• 27:50
  that includes like certain meals and flights and transport and
• 27:54
  tickets to things and all of that.
• 27:57
  So keep that in mind if you're looking at these because the
• 28:02
  the, the price point is fairly high for some of these.
• 28:05
  But I mean they've got locations in Africa, Egypt, Morocco and
• 28:08
  South Africa, the Asian Asia Pacific area, they do Australia,
• 28:12
  China, Japan, New Zealand, I mean you name it, they do it
• 28:15
  basically when it comes to that, even just North America ones, if
• 28:20
  you're looking for a a guided tour of different regions of
• 28:24
  North America, they do Alaska, they do like in Arizona and
• 28:27
  Utah, the Canadian Rockies, they do some with Disneyland in
• 28:31
  Southern California. I didn't see any with Disney
• 28:35
  World. So I think just Disneyland are
• 28:37
  included in some of these. They do a Nova Scotia and Prince
• 28:41
  Edward Island one and then one in Wyoming, which I was like
• 28:43
  that's super fun, like that's something.
• 28:44
  That I would have been. Doing really.
• 28:47
  Yeah. Because it's so different and
• 28:49
  it's unlike anything that I've ever done like that or like the
• 28:52
  like Arizona and Utah. I've just like I've lived on in
• 28:56
  the like Midwest and Eastern, you know, this side of the
• 28:59
  country for my whole life. And I've been to Arizona once
• 29:02
  and that was it. So like.
• 29:03
  My goodness, you need to come visit me and I'll show you the
• 29:06
  West. It'll be great.
• 29:07
  Yes, I've been to all states except for three.
• 29:13
  So yeah, it's you. And.
• 29:15
  And then they're not. I've been to Alaska and I've
• 29:17
  been Hawaii. So it's not those.
• 29:18
  It's like mostly the Northeast. So I got to get up there, got to
• 29:21
  go see Vermont and Maine and New Hampshire one of these days.
• 29:24
  It's going to happen. Well, unfortunately, Adventures
• 29:27
  by Disney does not go up there. I will not be using Adventures
• 29:32
  by Disney, but I will find a way.
• 29:33
  OK, yeah, again, lots of lots of options there.
• 29:38
  They previously have offered what they call the polar
• 29:40
  regions, but currently it's not being offered on their website,
• 29:43
  so I couldn't find much information about that.
• 29:45
  Like Antarctica, I don't know, it just said polar regions.
• 29:49
  So I was like, I'm not sure exactly what that means.
• 29:52
  It sounds intriguing for someone that's not me because I despise
• 29:57
  the cold. I feel like it's all those
• 30:00
  things. Don't you have to do that?
• 30:01
  What Drake Passage crossing that we see all over the stock where
• 30:04
  people have to like go on that crazy.
• 30:07
  And it's either like they say when it's the it's either really
• 30:10
  still or like really, really awful.
• 30:12
  It's no in between. I don't know.
• 30:15
  I don't know if I want to do that.
• 30:17
  No, thank you. I'll just go to Disney instead.
• 30:22
  But then they also do Central and South America, Colombia,
• 30:27
  Costa Rica. They do just like the Amazon as
• 30:29
  one, which I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.
• 30:31
  Like different locations throughout there.
• 30:33
  Yeah, that would be cool. Been the Galapagos Islands,
• 30:35
  which like that sounds fascinating to me.
• 30:37
  I want the Penguins. I'd be all in for the Penguins.
• 30:40
  And the giant tortoises that live on the Galapagos Islands.
• 30:44
  That would be like, let's go, OK.
• 30:49
  And then they have so many options in Europe.
• 30:51
  They have 28 options in Europe. So like I did not list them all,
• 30:55
  but like places like Barcelona, the British Isles, Iceland,
• 30:59
  Portugal, like literally basically anywhere that you
• 31:01
  could think of they go. And then the, the last category
• 31:06
  and this one recently I think made made kind of like Disney
• 31:10
  news a couple months ago when they announced it.
• 31:12
  They have an around the world option and it is $115,000 and
• 31:19
  you visit, You start in Anaheim and you end in Orlando, but in
• 31:25
  between it's Anaheim, San Francisco, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong
• 31:31
  Kong, Agra, Cairo, Paris, and then Orlando.
• 31:35
  And you visit all of the parks on your way around the world.
• 31:40
  I mean, if I had that money, I would do it like that would be
• 31:44
  amazing. But yeah, So again.
• 31:48
  Like I said, some of these are more expensive than others
• 31:50
  because you've got to think about travel and transport and
• 31:53
  all that kind of stuff, but that is the most expensive one when
• 31:56
  it comes to Adventures by Disney.
• 31:58
  But if you're someone who is looking for a way to travel the
• 32:01
  world, it can be intimidating. I know to think about going to
• 32:05
  other countries, so I feel like doing something like Through
• 32:09
  Adventures by Disney can give you a little bit of Peace of
• 32:11
  Mind knowing that Disney is taking care of things for you.
• 32:14
  I feel like that helps a little. Yeah, you know, and I think it's
• 32:18
  similar to if you've ever been on a Disney cruise and you pay
• 32:22
  for like their shore excursions and then you they go and you
• 32:24
  meet up with a local who's like very well versed and very, very
• 32:28
  knowledgeable and they act as your tour guide and they take
• 32:31
  you around and they, you know, like it's all just kind of like
• 32:33
  done for you. It's very much from what I
• 32:36
  understand, it's like that I have not paid to do one of
• 32:38
  these. So, you know, take that with a
• 32:40
  grain of salt, but from those experience of those shore
• 32:43
  excursions, they're usually very, very well done and you get
• 32:46
  a lot out of them. And it's it's all kind of, it's
• 32:50
  relaxed for you because you don't have to stress about
• 32:52
  getting places and knowing where to go and what to do and how to
• 32:56
  speak all the languages and things like that.
• 32:57
  So it's really convenient for that.
• 33:00
  Yeah, yeah. That's what I would say too.
• 33:02
  So I feel like if I ever decide to go to any of these places,
• 33:05
  the 1st place I'm going to try to book it through his
• 33:08
  adventures by Disney gives me a little bit of Peace of Mind
• 33:11
  because I really want to in this kind of segues into the next
• 33:14
  section that we're going to talk about the international parks.
• 33:16
  But I really want to visit Tokyo and Shanghai.
• 33:20
  But that is very intimidating to me because I just, I don't have
• 33:24
  the knowledge that I need at this point in my life to be in
• 33:27
  those cultures. So I'd have to do a lot of
• 33:29
  research. But also then booking through
• 33:31
  something like Adventures by Disney gives me a little bit of
• 33:33
  Peace of Mind knowing that I'll have a guide of some sort with
• 33:36
  me. So that way that can be very.
• 33:38
  Helpful. And we should mention that this
• 33:40
  is not sponsored by Adventures, by Disney.
• 33:42
  It sounds a little bit like an infomercial and it's really not.
• 33:44
  We're just giving you some information and how you could
• 33:47
  travel the world with a little magical like Disney touch, if
• 33:49
  that's if that's what you'd like to do.
• 33:51
  Truth. OK, let's let's talk a little
• 33:53
  bit about sitting in international Disney Park is
• 33:56
  like high on the list for me. I just did Disneyland Paris.
• 33:58
  That's where these ears are from.
• 34:00
  In case you're wondering, I just did Disneyland Paris this last
• 34:04
  year and Disney Tokyo Tokyo Disney is like definitely on my
• 34:08
  list for in the next 18 months or so.
• 34:11
  I'm hoping, and I totally get the idea of being really
• 34:14
  intimidated by it. I'm more intimidated than I used
• 34:17
  to be when I was young as we lived in Europe and we just
• 34:19
  traveled a lot and I just got used to like being in different
• 34:22
  cultures all the time and just adopting.
• 34:24
  And now I'm old and I have kids, and that's more stressful.
• 34:28
  So especially thinking about do you want to take them with you?
• 34:32
  That's a whole nother. Ball game.
• 34:35
  Yeah, they they did well in Europe overall, So.
• 34:37
  And they they talk about it all the time.
• 34:39
  And that was a huge life experience.
• 34:41
  Yeah. We have 5 international Disney
• 34:43
  parks. We've got Tokyo Disney, which
• 34:46
  was, and then we have Disneyland, Paris, Hong Kong,
• 34:49
  Disneyland and then Shanghai. So those are all the ones.
• 34:52
  A lot of people are surprised that there's like Shanghai and
• 34:54
  Hong Kong. There's a lot over there in the
• 34:57
  Asian part of the world. So you know, that is there's
• 35:03
  lots of places to visit and they're all a little bit
• 35:05
  different. If people are like, oh, they're
• 35:06
  carbon copies of each other at all.
• 35:08
  There's some things that are similar.
• 35:09
  There's some rides that are identical, but by and large
• 35:13
  there's lands that are completely different.
• 35:15
  The food is very different and it is all worth experiencing if
• 35:19
  you can make it happen. Yeah, absolutely.
• 35:21
  I think those are those are, you know we talk about bucket list
• 35:25
  items. Those are on my bucket list.
• 35:27
  I just know it's probably going to take me the next 50 years to
• 35:30
  get to all of it. Me too.
• 35:33
  And it's expensive. Travel is expensive and luckily
• 35:35
  some of these parks, when you go to them, if you're coming from
• 35:38
  the US, they at least don't cost as much because your, your
• 35:42
  exchange rate works in your advantage.
• 35:44
  So that does help. But sometimes just the act of
• 35:46
  getting there is extremely hard, especially if we're talking
• 35:49
  Asia. I mean for us that's like a
• 35:52
  12/13 plus hour flight and we're not that far from it.
• 35:55
  We're like on the other side of the Pacific Rim, right?
• 35:57
  So it's it takes a long, a lot to get there.
• 36:00
  So we get there. And I I think about that coming
• 36:02
  from the Eastern Time zone and I'm like that's a lot, this is a
• 36:10
  lot of time zones that I'm traveling, you know.
• 36:12
  So it it it's definitely something that you have to do a
• 36:17
  lot of research before you go. But it is definitely a good
• 36:21
  thing to plan for. If that's something that you
• 36:24
  really want to do, and if it's maybe your resolution is to
• 36:27
  start to budget or start to put a little bit of money aside for
• 36:31
  a trip in five years, that's great.
• 36:34
  If that's what you want to do. You know, there's lots of
• 36:36
  different ways that you can approach travel when it comes to
• 36:38
  resolutions. Yeah, Ryan's asking do cast
• 36:42
  members speak English in the international parks in in Paris?
• 36:46
  For sure they do. They speak both because most of
• 36:50
  the people that go there are from the UK.
• 36:52
  So it's like that's there's everything's in in French and
• 36:56
  English in that park. So it's not hard at all to to
• 36:58
  communicate. And in terms of the other ones,
• 37:01
  I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't speak English in most of
• 37:05
  those places just because almost all those countries learn
• 37:08
  English alongside their native language, first of all.
• 37:11
  And second all the fact that it's Disney, they probably do.
• 37:14
  You might have some signs and things that signs are probably
• 37:17
  both in like the language and then also English from what I've
• 37:20
  seen. And then you can also get like
• 37:23
  my iPhone translates things like crazy like, so I was translating
• 37:28
  my daughter's, she got a little Kirby Robin Bolt.
• 37:31
  It has some language on the bottom.
• 37:33
  I'm not even sure which one it is to be honest.
• 37:36
  But it. So I used my iPhone to translate
• 37:38
  it and it said the power of the stars because we all thought it
• 37:41
  said Kirby and it says the power of the stars.
• 37:43
  I was like, oh, so you get your phone to hold it up and read
• 37:46
  things and translate really easily, which helps.
• 37:48
  A lot. Technology is great, like I
• 37:50
  can't imagine 20-30 years ago trying to visit these countries
• 37:54
  and not having the ability to Google.
• 37:56
  Translate something. Yeah, right.
• 38:00
  Yeah. It's.
• 38:00
  It was a whole different ball game traveling in the early
• 38:03
  2000s, I will tell you that. Yeah, so true.
• 38:08
  Speaking of more travel, Kate, let's talk about Disney Cruises.
• 38:13
  Yeah, and not a ton because it's a massive topic that we can get
• 38:17
  into for days. And I think Jackie and I are
• 38:20
  planning a series on Disney Cruise Line for later in the
• 38:23
  year for Mom Street. So if that's something you'd
• 38:24
  like to learn more about, stick around because we'll we'll talk
• 38:27
  more about it later. But Disney Cruise does have 19
• 38:31
  different locations they're going to currently they change
• 38:33
  it up every once in a while, six different ships currently they
• 38:37
  add some every once in a while and they go to the Caribbean.
• 38:42
  Your Europe, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, I think right now they
• 38:45
  even have Australian sometimes they have Hawaii, they do like
• 38:49
  Panama Canal cruises. They do transatlantic cruises.
• 38:52
  They do West Coast cruises and East Coast cruises.
• 38:54
  It's just like anywhere you want to go.
• 38:57
  They're probably going there at some point because they have a
• 38:59
  massive fleet of ships give they it is is spendy to go ahead to
• 39:05
  see cruise it's but it's worth saving up for if that's the
• 39:10
  thing that is you could fit in your budget because it's it's a
• 39:12
  really amazing experience I have to.
• 39:14
  Say that, Yeah. And it's a good way.
• 39:16
  If, like, Adventures by Disney is not in your budget and not
• 39:19
  something that you want to try to save up for, doing, a Disney
• 39:23
  cruise is a much better way to kind of regionally see the
• 39:27
  world. Yeah, depending on where you are
• 39:30
  and where where you're going and all that kind of stuff.
• 39:33
  And then maybe a little closer to maybe a price point that fits
• 39:35
  within your budget? Yeah, that's what we did this
• 39:38
  last summer as we flew over to London and then we did a
• 39:42
  Northern European cruise. So we got to go to Denmark and
• 39:45
  Belgium and Norway, a couple stops in Norway and then also
• 39:49
  back to London. So we saw the UK and then we
• 39:52
  just took the the train through the tunnel and went to Paris and
• 39:55
  Disneyland Paris and then went home.
• 39:56
  And so it was quite an amazing vacation.
• 39:58
  It was a long vacation with a lot of logistics, but it was
• 40:02
  amazing how many things we saw in a very short period of time.
• 40:05
  And I love cruises because you can just go to sleep and wake up
• 40:08
  at another country so you can, you don't have to do that act of
• 40:11
  traveling to another country, which is very stressful,
• 40:13
  especially if you have a family. Yeah, I could tell you the
• 40:18
  stories of us trying to get all of our.
• 40:21
  What is it? It was six of us with suitcases
• 40:24
  all onto the train before the doors closed and the train left
• 40:28
  was the most stressful thing I've ever done.
• 40:31
  And it was extremely, it was like, I don't think I've ever
• 40:34
  been that stressed out in my life, making sure we had all the
• 40:36
  people and the bags on the train while there's other people
• 40:39
  trying to get on and off the train.
• 40:41
  Like, no, next time we're going to travel really light if we
• 40:44
  ever do it again. So anyway, good luck with that.
• 40:46
  Yeah, Disney Cruise Got a Disney cruise.
• 40:48
  It's so much easier than doing that.
• 40:51
  Yes, yes, absolutely. Absolutely it is.
• 40:54
  So all of those ideas, again, this category, a little bit more
• 40:58
  spendy when it comes to doing different kinds of travel with
• 41:03
  adventures by Disney International Parks in the
• 41:05
  Disney Cruise Line. But again, it's expensive.
• 41:07
  It is, yes. Now, are there ways that you can
• 41:10
  experience these places from the comfort of your own home?
• 41:13
  Absolutely. That's what YouTube is for and
• 41:16
  that's what social media is for and content of people.
• 41:20
  You know, there's lots of people that visit the international
• 41:22
  parks now. Some of them you can't like do
• 41:25
  live streams in and things like that, but there's lots of that
• 41:27
  content that's out and available.
• 41:29
  So just do a quick search and you can also enjoy it from the
• 41:32
  comfort of your own home. Yeah.
• 41:35
  Which I think it segues nicely into our next category of
• 41:39
  resolutions, which would be spending more time with your
• 41:41
  family, which we're huge advocates for, obviously by
• 41:46
  doing. I put this idea of doing a
• 41:48
  virtual Disney trip, which I feel like a lot of us did during
• 41:51
  like lockdown time. Because we're like we need to
• 41:55
  like do something. We want to get out, but we can't
• 41:57
  get out. Pretend like we can leave even
• 41:59
  though we can't. But is it really fun to just
• 42:02
  plan like a little night in or something where you're like, OK,
• 42:05
  we're just going to go and we're going to watch video footage on
• 42:08
  YouTube of like the different areas of the park.
• 42:10
  Like what ride should we go on next?
• 42:11
  And you go and you watch that ride like a point of view of
• 42:13
  that ride and I think it's really fun.
• 42:16
  You can also have Disney snacks like a lot of stores sell the
• 42:19
  Mickey ice cream bars. So you could get those popcorn
• 42:22
  and churros that they also sell the grocery stores and things
• 42:25
  like that. So you can make some Disney
• 42:27
  snacks and kind of virtually go to the park.
• 42:29
  And I think it's also really nice if you really want to go to
• 42:32
  Disney, but it is just not in the cards right now And that's I
• 42:35
  think a lot of us because the groceries are spendy.
• 42:39
  So. So this is a way that you can do
• 42:43
  that and still kind of get that magic with your family, but in a
• 42:47
  way that maybe is a little bit more budget friendly.
• 42:50
  Yeah. And I think another budget
• 42:52
  friendly option that you could do are like theme nights or
• 42:54
  Disney movie nights. And we've talked about different
• 42:57
  ways to kind of go about doing that, but just having where your
• 43:00
  your food for the night is themed to whatever movie you're
• 43:04
  going to watch or. Lady and the Tramp with
• 43:06
  spaghetti meatballs. Yes, you could.
• 43:09
  I mean doing something as easy as Toy Story and having pizza
• 43:13
  because Pizza Planet, you know, it doesn't have to be elaborate
• 43:16
  and extreme, but doing Disney movie nights together as a
• 43:20
  family, planning it together as a family or letting you know,
• 43:23
  rotating through who gets to pick the theme for the week,
• 43:26
  however you you don't want to do that.
• 43:29
  And then obviously, if you're able to book a trip and plan it
• 43:33
  together with your family, that's something that my kids
• 43:36
  love to do because we've included them in the last
• 43:38
  several trips that we've done. So anytime I tell them that
• 43:42
  we're doing a trip, they're like, OK, when are we going to
• 43:44
  do our ride list? When are we going to pick out
• 43:46
  what we want to do? Like they're ready.
• 43:48
  They. I know, it's so cute.
• 43:51
  I don't know if that's a good. Thing or a bet?
• 43:56
  I love it, but thanks. Don't do that.
• 43:59
  They're kind of like, what are we wearing because they go on
• 44:01
  outfits. That's fair.
• 44:02
  Like, let's plan our outfits. And I feel like once my kids are
• 44:05
  a little bit older, like right now, they they could care less.
• 44:08
  I'll give them some options when it comes to like, planning their
• 44:10
  outfits. And they like to be involved
• 44:12
  when I'm packing. But they don't necessarily have
• 44:15
  super strong opinions because they like everything that's in
• 44:17
  their closet. So like, as long as I'm pulling
• 44:19
  stuff out of their closet, they're like, cool, That's fine.
• 44:21
  Whatever. That's nice.
• 44:23
  They have changes when they get older.
• 44:25
  At least it did for me. They have started to get really
• 44:28
  attached to any of the shirts that I have bought from our
• 44:32
  friend Kirk at Walrus Carp. Those are like their favorites
• 44:37
  that they like to wear. We bought them the matching
• 44:41
  Madame Liotta Making Spirits Bright Holiday shirt.
• 44:44
  So all four of us had them that one.
• 44:46
  I know it's such a good one, but we had that one on when we went
• 44:50
  this past time and they were so excited that we all were like
• 44:53
  matching together. So I envision, you know, we also
• 44:57
  did some Disney bounding this last time for the first time
• 44:59
  like as a family. So I envisioned there will
• 45:01
  probably be more of that. But right now they're more
• 45:03
  concerned about getting to give their input on what rides we do.
• 45:08
  No, I love that. So yeah, those are just some
• 45:12
  just some small ideas for a resolution of spending more time
• 45:15
  together as a family. You know, obviously we're we're
• 45:18
  focusing on just the Disney ones.
• 45:19
  There's lots of things you can do to spend more time together
• 45:22
  as a family, but we're focusing on specifically Disney things
• 45:25
  you can do. Speaking of planning and
• 45:28
  organizing, Jackie, I feel like this next topic is for you, this
• 45:33
  resolution, because it's all about planning and organizing
• 45:36
  more. I mean, I may be just really, I
• 45:40
  just enjoy doing that. Yeah, that's fair.
• 45:45
  Exactly. So if you are someone who's
• 45:47
  like, man, I wish that I was more organized or I wish that I
• 45:50
  had like a better way to like do my Disney trip and plan it.
• 45:55
  First of all, you're in the right place because that's what
• 45:57
  Kate Nyer for. So, being here, check that off
• 46:01
  your list, you're already doing it.
• 46:04
  Done. We do, we do love checkbox.
• 46:08
  We do they, you know, checking off all the boxes.
• 46:10
  That's the thing we do here, but.
• 46:12
  Something as simple as Etsy planners and guides for there
• 46:15
  are so many different options that that you can find online.
• 46:20
  Mom St. Week, Kate and I have several
• 46:22
  options for We have like a planning checklist and different
• 46:26
  you know, one day strategy guides and all those kinds of
• 46:29
  things. Those currently live on the
• 46:31
  Walrus Carp Discord on our Mom St. channel, so if you're
• 46:34
  looking for those, that's where you can currently find them.
• 46:37
  I also have an Etsy shop that has planners and guides and
• 46:40
  things like that as well, but there are so many options that
• 46:43
  you can find that so you know that you can search around and
• 46:46
  find one that really is catered to what you want and what works
• 46:50
  for you. And even just the Disney themed
• 46:54
  calendars, you know, can be super fun even if you're not
• 46:57
  planning a trip, but you just need to be more organized with
• 47:01
  your schedule or whatever. But having a planner that's
• 47:03
  Disney themed can make it a little bit more magical as you
• 47:07
  go through your day-to-day life. And then yeah, making and buying
• 47:11
  a countdown for your next trip. We did a whole episode on count
• 47:15
  or a whole half an episode on countdowns and what that looks
• 47:19
  like and surprising people with Disney trips and all that.
• 47:21
  It's all in there, but doing that can be just as fun, too.
• 47:26
  Yeah. And I will say that our like
• 47:28
  checklist that we curated, that's like the ultimate Disney
• 47:31
  planning checklist for. It's like a one sheet.
• 47:34
  That's all the things you need. And I pulled that out because
• 47:37
  I'm planning a trip for my family to Disney World, which I
• 47:40
  haven't done in like a couple years.
• 47:42
  And I'm like, thank goodness we made this because now I'm using
• 47:44
  it. I have also referred back to it
• 47:49
  like I have my own checklist that I've just been using for as
• 47:52
  long as I can remember, but I definitely like because it's me,
• 47:56
  I cross referenced it cross reference.
• 48:00
  With your spreadsheet. Listen, it brings me joy, OK?
• 48:05
  And I'm not going to stop doing it.
• 48:06
  It's great they say what what at least 50% of like your them
• 48:10
  throwing that number out there. But it they said that so much of
• 48:12
  the the enjoyment of your trip is actually like the
• 48:14
  anticipation of it and the planning like that's like a huge
• 48:17
  part of it. And those who get are surprised
• 48:19
  by trips don't feel as much satisfaction of them necessarily
• 48:23
  because they didn't get to plan it.
• 48:25
  So just saying, planning is good or you can?
• 48:29
  So yes, lots of different ways that you can plan.
• 48:33
  And if you're someone who like, wants a plan and wants to be
• 48:36
  organized but doesn't necessarily want to do it
• 48:38
  yourself, that's also what I'm here for.
• 48:40
  So if you need help with your itinerary or your Genie Plus are
• 48:44
  planning, send us a message. We will help.
• 48:48
  Yeah, Jackie's so good at that she helps me with my Disneyland
• 48:50
  Paris One because I was like overwhelmed with all the other
• 48:53
  details of that trip. So Jackie's wonderful as a trip
• 48:57
  consultant getting things planned out.
• 48:59
  All right, So Next up, we have on our our resolutions list that
• 49:05
  we are Disneyfying. We've got relaxing more and
• 49:09
  self-care. That should be my resolution, I
• 49:12
  know. That's what I thought too.
• 49:13
  And I was making this list. I was like, that's a good.
• 49:16
  One. Yeah, it is.
• 49:19
  So let's go ahead this, this first one is, is all you, Kate.
• 49:23
  Oh, yeah. OK.
• 49:26
  So the first one is read more Disney books.
• 49:30
  And there's so many good ones out there.
• 49:32
  I have like a whole stack of them.
• 49:34
  I'll show you because my shelf is like, awful over here.
• 49:37
  But I have like I have probably at least 150 Disney history and
• 49:42
  Disney books, and so I've I know which ones are my favorites and
• 49:45
  which ones I'm like I probably could do without that one.
• 49:48
  So I put my favorites on a specifically Disney history book
• 49:52
  list on my Amazon storefront. So there is a Mr. Lincoln bio
• 49:55
  for that one if you guys are interested in that.
• 49:58
  We'll link it in our show notes as well.
• 50:01
  But then I also do have a couple of books that I've published as
• 50:05
  well, in case you want something that is, I have two books that
• 50:10
  are behind me that I can show you.
• 50:12
  That one is called A Glimpse of the Magic Finding Ourselves in
• 50:15
  the Disney Story. This is a nonfiction book that
• 50:18
  is like a curated collection of writings about how we experience
• 50:23
  the Disney Parks and has the history in it as well.
• 50:26
  And then this is the first, This one's called Where the Fireflies
• 50:29
  Dance and it is a first of a series that I'm working on.
• 50:34
  I've already, I've written two books in the series, but this
• 50:38
  one is all about Disney history. It comes alive when two live
• 50:41
  streamers find love in the shadow of Sleeping Beauty
• 50:43
  Castle. But one of them has a they're
• 50:46
  hiding a dangerous secret. So their fairy tale romance
• 50:48
  might just unravel into an unhappily ever after.
• 50:50
  So that's what this one's about. If you like Disney Live
• 50:53
  streamers, if you like Disney History, if you like Disney
• 50:56
  contract creating creators or if you just like being in the
• 50:59
  Disney Parks and want to put yourself there mentally, this
• 51:02
  one is is a good one for that. And then I have a the next book
• 51:05
  in the series. It's like it's a romantic
• 51:08
  suspense. So no surprises there.
• 51:10
  But the next one in the series is coming out but before the end
• 51:13
  of this month it's almost done and it is called what the
• 51:17
  Mansion I see. So it's a Haunted Mansion, a
• 51:20
  little bit themed. Jackie has read.
• 51:23
  They have so. Good.
• 51:26
  You guys are going to love it. Yeah.
• 51:28
  So those those are also, they're available on Amazon in case
• 51:31
  anybody's looking for them. They're pretty easy to find if
• 51:33
  you just search for Disney sister owner Kate Grasso around.
• 51:37
  So those if you just want to Lem just said he just bought the
• 51:42
  fireflies, went oh thanks Lem. And Kirk's saying the second
• 51:46
  book is all about a Yeti stuck in a mountain in Disney World,
• 51:48
  which is not true. So don't listen for that.
• 51:53
  That's not true. But that's not.
• 51:55
  It but yes, lots of lots of fun ways that if reading is a way
• 52:00
  that you enjoy yourself, care, and helps you relax, That is a
• 52:06
  there are so many great Disney books and if you like have a
• 52:09
  specific genre you're looking for, Reach out to Kate.
• 52:14
  She can help you find the books that you're looking for.
• 52:16
  Yeah, I've read a lot. I read probably two to three
• 52:19
  books a week. I'm just a voracious reader.
• 52:22
  That's how I know all the things I know since I just read a ton.
• 52:25
  So if you're if you need a good book about something specific in
• 52:28
  Disney culture, I probably know one I can recommend so.
• 52:33
  Very kind of. That and Lem saying.
• 52:36
  Kane confirms a person who doesn't enjoy reading.
• 52:37
  He did enjoy reading this book because he just read the new one
• 52:40
  that's coming out this month. So thanks, Thanks for that.
• 52:44
  Appreciate that. And I do have the S Audio
• 52:46
  version, so the first two are available on Audible.
• 52:49
  And Enough plugging me, let's move on.
• 52:53
  That is so good. It's OK.
• 52:55
  Well, then let's let's plug our ourselves, shall we continue to
• 53:00
  plug on unintentionally. Plug another way that you may
• 53:04
  enjoy relaxation and self-care are podcasts and there are
• 53:07
  thousands of Disney podcasts that you can listen to.
• 53:11
  Kate and I are fortunate enough to be between the the two of us.
• 53:16
  Part of, you know, obviously Mom Street, but then Kate has her
• 53:20
  podcast with our friend Kirk from Wallace Carp.
• 53:22
  That is distri with Kate and Kirk.
• 53:25
  That is a full deep dive into Disney history.
• 53:30
  Yes, if that's something that you're interested in, you can
• 53:34
  find that in all of the places that podcasts exist.
• 53:37
  And Mom Street is very fortunate to be a part of a super fun
• 53:41
  group of podcasters through our chip and Co network.
• 53:45
  So united we fan, we like theme parks and company and the Dis
• 53:49
  Life podcast are all part of that.
• 53:52
  And you can find those all on the chip and Co podcast network,
• 53:55
  which is also where you will find our episodes when they
• 53:58
  premiere. So lots of good content over
• 54:01
  there as well. Yeah, that's.
• 54:04
  And then I have something that I have been working on just as
• 54:07
  kind of a side project every once in a while is some Disney
• 54:10
  Spotify playlist. Now there's lots of wonderful
• 54:13
  Disney Spotify playlist out there, so you don't have to
• 54:15
  listen to mine. But if you if you want Disney
• 54:17
  History specific playlist, I have one that's called the
• 54:21
  Historians Lounge. It's just kind of like Disney
• 54:23
  Lounge music so to speak, most mostly instrumental.
• 54:26
  So if you need that for the background and then also have if
• 54:30
  you search for distry radio, like Disney History Distry
• 54:33
  Radio, I've curated, as we do our Distri Podcast.
• 54:37
  I've curated some playlists that were actually from like queues
• 54:41
  or various areas in the Disney parks, so you can listen to
• 54:44
  those. We have a lot of Jungle Cruise
• 54:45
  ones on there and I'm working on a few others as well.
• 54:48
  So Distri radio is on there. Just if you'd need some historic
• 54:53
  Disney music. Yeah, nice.
• 54:55
  And I actually have a couple different Spotify playlists as
• 54:58
  well of all sorts of Disney music.
• 55:00
  I've got holiday themed ones and just kind of generic Disney
• 55:03
  movie soundtrack ones. So there's so many that exist on
• 55:07
  Spotify and probably a lot of your other favorite content
• 55:09
  creators have Spotify playlist that maybe they don't talk about
• 55:13
  a lot. I've know I've I have found some
• 55:15
  from other creators that I have that I followed that I'm like, I
• 55:18
  wonder and I like go in their little link tree and I'm like,
• 55:21
  let me see what they like to listen to.
• 55:23
  Yeah, I had to. I do a very careful like
• 55:26
  curating of like making some private in some public because I
• 55:29
  was like, well, some of these are just not for public
• 55:31
  consumption. They're like my personal music,
• 55:35
  so and my kids because my kids make things too on my account.
• 55:38
  So I was like, OK, let's private some of these.
• 55:43
  So all the public ones are dizzy and all the private ones.
• 55:47
  Other things that you can do if your resolution is more
• 55:50
  self-care or relaxation in the new year, learn to draw some
• 55:53
  Disney characters. We've done this.
• 55:56
  Have your remote so you could pause it.
• 55:57
  That will be less stressful. So true Animation Academy,
• 56:03
  Youtubes and whatnot and things from the Disney Parks Blog and
• 56:06
  whatnot that will teach you how to draw Disney characters and
• 56:09
  that can be really relaxing and fun and also learn a new skill
• 56:12
  while you're at it for drawing characters.
• 56:15
  And I also throw in here, just do some Disney coloring.
• 56:17
  You know, you could just print off.
• 56:19
  They have sheets just pre printables everywhere that you
• 56:22
  can print to color and just relax doing that by maybe
• 56:26
  listening to music or watch a movie, you know to just kind of
• 56:29
  zone out. And I always I do this like once
• 56:31
  a year. I color like once a year and I
• 56:33
  should do it more often because it is still relaxing.
• 56:36
  You have that to your resolution list.
• 56:38
  Yes, making it as we speak. There you go.
• 56:41
  See. Perfect.
• 56:42
  Perfect. So I feel like this next one
• 56:45
  that we've got kind of our last little resolution category goes
• 56:48
  hand in hand with some of the stuff we were just talking about
• 56:52
  and that is making the resolution to spend less time on
• 56:55
  your technology kind of being more present.
• 56:58
  Again, this kind of goes hand in hand with relaxing and spending
• 57:01
  time with family, you know all of that kind of, but doing
• 57:05
  things like Disney board games. We love doing Disney board games
• 57:10
  at my house. There are so many really great
• 57:13
  options. If you want there are park
• 57:14
  specific ones. We've got a Haunted Mansion
• 57:16
  board game that we. Love to play?
• 57:19
  There are ones that are good for kids.
• 57:20
  We literally on New Year's Eve just pulled out.
• 57:23
  It's like a big I spy Disney game and it's like a six foot
• 57:26
  long game board. My kids love it.
• 57:28
  It's super fun. I think my kids tons of options.
• 57:32
  This one is my kids favorite and it's called Color Brain.
• 57:35
  Have you ever played this one, Jackie?
• 57:37
  No. So this one's really fun.
• 57:38
  I won't get too far into it. It's really simple, even for
• 57:42
  younger kids to play, because all it is, is like, it'll show a
• 57:46
  character and then it'll show like the card will be like the
• 57:50
  Incredibles, the logo on the Incredibles, hero costumes, four
• 57:53
  colors. And then you have color cards in
• 57:55
  your hand and you have to like, remember what colors they are
• 57:58
  and you'll actually be surprised what what colors you think
• 58:01
  things are. And then they're not.
• 58:02
  They're different. So this is probably one of our
• 58:06
  favorite kids game to play with my kids because it's really
• 58:09
  easy. It's only like 20 minutes long.
• 58:11
  It's not a long game and helpful couple if we want to.
• 58:14
  Yeah, or just a short game. But I I like that one a lot and
• 58:18
  it says 8 plus on it. But if you read the card to the
• 58:21
  kids, they could probably do it younger.
• 58:23
  Yeah, yeah. We also have a small world game
• 58:25
  that my kids love to play and it's all just like matching, so
• 58:28
  like super easy there. There are so many different
• 58:31
  Disney versions of games. Even if you get, you know, they
• 58:35
  have Uno cards that are Mickey Mouse themed or you know,
• 58:38
  there's lots of different really easy variations that you can do
• 58:41
  if you don't want to like dive feet first into the World of
• 58:44
  Disney board games. Same thing goes with puzzles.
• 58:48
  That is one that like I've talked about on here before, my
• 58:51
  son loves, loves doing puzzles. So we have tons of Disney
• 58:56
  puzzles in my house that are just super fun and we we like to
• 58:59
  do it together. I often will sit and observe
• 59:02
  while my husband and my son do the puzzle because it's
• 59:07
  something they truly enjoy and I enjoy watching them do it.
• 59:09
  So it's a good dining. It's.
• 59:11
  Relaxing to watch somebody else, like put the pieces together for
• 59:14
  sure. Yeah.
• 59:15
  So those are just a couple ways that you can spend your time,
• 59:19
  being more present with family, with yourself, with your
• 59:22
  significant other, with your spouse, whatever it may be, just
• 59:25
  spending some of that quality time together and making it
• 59:28
  Disney. I love that.
• 59:31
  Well, I think we've reached the end of our not the end of the
• 59:34
  episode, just the end of the resolution part.
• 59:37
  But now we have some bucket list items at Disney.
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  And so those of you who are in our chat, if you have bucket
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  list items as well and you want to add them to the chat, we'll
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  also put them here. Things you've always wanted to
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  do at Disney or with Disney or involving Disney, we love to
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  hear your ideas as well. So, so let's talk a little a bit
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  about bucket list. And I just wanted to preface
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  this with something that is actually from.
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  Sorry, I'm going to bring it back out this look.
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  Do not apologize. Be proud of that book, Kate.
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  Well, because I have a chapter in here that's all about
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  breaking your ghost rules at Disney.
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  And Ghost rules is isn't something that I got from Todd
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  Henry of Accidental Creative and he says ghost rules are
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  invisible limitations that people place upon themselves for
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  no good reason. Sometimes these rules come baked
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  in assumptions about what is and isn't possible.
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  And so basically in that chapter it, I'm just going to summarize
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  it really quick that it I say I talk about how at Disney we
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  always have these things that we always do at Disney and some of
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  them really bring us joy. Like you always get a dealt with
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  or you always go on the stride first and say and that's great,
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  like those are amazing. But there's also things we never
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  get to because we always do the same thing.
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  So this is encouraging you to step out of your Disney comfort
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  zone and maybe do something differently than you've always
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  done it when you go to Disney. And I have been practicing this
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  for the last two years because I've, I have had the luxury of
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  going to the parks a lot. So I don't do everything every
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  time I go anymore. Like, I just do what I feel like
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  or need to do. And so now I've like, I've
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  really reached out on my comfort zone.
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  I was like, I'm going to go try this new ride or this new thing
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  or this thing. I've always walked by and always
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  wanted to try and like, don't put yourself in that box where I
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  have to do Disney the same way every time.
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  It it even if you just try one new thing, you know, that can
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  make like a huge difference. You might find something that
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  you absolutely love and it changes your perspective about
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  what Disney is. So that's what I would recommend
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  is break your ghost rules. Don't let them rule you.
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  Haunt you, if you will. But yes, we we've kind of come
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  up with just a a general list of some things that you may want to
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  put on your Disney Parks bucket list.
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  Again, this is by no means a comprehensive complete list of
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  all of the things that you could put on your list is going to be
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  so specific to you as an individual and how you do the
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  parks and how often you get to the parks and have you been
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  before and all of those types of things.
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  But these are just kind of some thoughts that we had that we
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  thought maybe would be helpful to share.
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  I do have a couple of people already chiming in with some
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  other go ahead of things. Let's start off with those.
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  So, Grace says I would love to stay in the Polynesian
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  bungalows. A sale?
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  Yep, that's on my. Bucket list someday?
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  Mikhala, I think it's how you pronounce that Victorian.
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  Albert's is definitely on my bucket list.
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  One day I'll take out a loan for it.
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  Same, same, same. And yeah, so those are a couple
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  things that we'll see coming in here And then we have, which
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  goes along with try something new to eat, which I think is
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  like is something that we do. We, like I said, we always kind
• 1:02:50
  of eat the exact same things. Finding something that is a new
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  flavor, a new restaurant that maybe you're a little
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  intimidated by because there are a couple like very I'm I'm
• 1:02:58
  leaning towards like Sana and Boma and stuff.
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  You know, like the flavors might be a little bit out there for
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  some of you some people and but you might find something you
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  really love in there. So finding finding something new
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  to eat is definitely on that bucket list and maybe something
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  you've always been eyeballing that you want to have but you
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  never have. Like just Me Forever And the
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  Nomad Lounge. Like that was a bucket list item
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  forever and just finally did it. Just go for it.
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  And along with that, going on a ride that you haven't been
• 1:03:26
  before, maybe something you've been apprehensive about or just
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  something you've run out of time to do, like just put make it the
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  first thing that you do. Yeah, yeah, The first thing.
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  Yeah, that's so. And yeah, so you don't get too
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  overwhelmed with the idea of it. And then it gets like it like
• 1:03:45
  shadows everything else because you're thinking about doing it.
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  If it's something you're scared to do or just something that
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  you're like, I went on some ride that I was like, I'm never going
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  to go on this again after I went on it.
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  I think it was, it was got to be California Adventure.
• 1:03:58
  I think it was like the Jumping Jellyfish, but I'd always pass
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  that one. I was like, I'd never get to go
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  on. That was Astro Orbiter for me.
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  I went on it one for two trips ago and I never have to do it
• 1:04:10
  again. Yeah, but I didn't.
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  You have that experience? Yeah.
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  The death wheel. That's another one.
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  Yep. Yes.
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  Yes, obviously, know your limitations and you can respect
• 1:04:22
  those. And that's OK.
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  And you don't have to do things that are horrifying to you, but
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  you know, things that maybe you just a little step outside your
• 1:04:29
  comfort zone, you know, just give it a try.
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  It's good. Yes.
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  And kind of just in that realm of new visiting a new park that
• 1:04:37
  you haven't been to, we talked about the international parks,
• 1:04:39
  maybe that's something that is your bucket list or seeing a new
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  show. So lots of new things that you
• 1:04:45
  can do in the parks that very simple to do if you're already
• 1:04:48
  going to be going, just take a look at that list.
• 1:04:51
  I literally started a list after I was looking at this, I started
• 1:04:55
  a list of things that I haven't done at Disney World.
• 1:04:58
  That way next time I go I have a list of like OK, I can pull off
• 1:05:01
  one or two things that like I haven't done before that I want
• 1:05:04
  to do. Yeah, yeah, that's.
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  I started like a Google Doc with all the things that I want to do
• 1:05:09
  and I am doing a couple of them soon, So I'm excited for that.
• 1:05:15
  So then another thing you could do is do a non parks resort day
• 1:05:19
  at Disney World, which I think not.
• 1:05:20
  We've talked about this before. We did a whole episode on things
• 1:05:23
  you can do that are not going into the parks at Disney and
• 1:05:26
  there's a ton, it's a lot. So we won't get into the details
• 1:05:29
  here. It's not.
• 1:05:30
  It's not getting in the weeds, but there is so many things that
• 1:05:33
  you can do that are not in the resorts beyond or not, sorry,
• 1:05:37
  not in the parks and beyond like swimming at your resorts and
• 1:05:41
  things like it. Things that people already kind
• 1:05:42
  of know. There's lots of activities and
• 1:05:44
  extras and Disney Springs and lots, lots of stuff that you can
• 1:05:48
  do and a lot of it's free or included in your vacation.
• 1:05:52
  So finding some things like planning a a day to just be a
• 1:05:56
  resort stay, maybe it's the day you come in and it's you have a
• 1:05:58
  couple of hours of the day you leave, you know those are great
• 1:06:01
  days for that. Yeah.
• 1:06:03
  Another thing as far as Disney bucket list items would be when
• 1:06:06
  we touched on this briefly or a little bit ago.
• 1:06:08
  But splurging for table service or character dining, that is it
• 1:06:13
  typically in your budget. Saving a little bit of extra and
• 1:06:15
  splurging for that on a trip can make make some some good
• 1:06:19
  memories when it comes to that type of thing.
• 1:06:22
  Yeah. But I always think of, like
• 1:06:24
  Cinderella's Royal Table as one of those.
• 1:06:26
  Yeah, it's a lot. And you have to pay in advance
• 1:06:28
  for it. Yeah.
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  So it's not like you can save up before you have to.
• 1:06:32
  Like when you go to book, you have to pay for it.
• 1:06:35
  So that's definitely one of those.
• 1:06:39
  I love that you. Oh, so of course visiting a new
• 1:06:42
  Epcot festival, that's that's always a great one.
• 1:06:44
  Especially if you get those little ones that are at the
• 1:06:46
  beginning of the year that are very short, like at the festival
• 1:06:49
  the arts and the the flowering gardens a little bit longer than
• 1:06:52
  that festival the arts like you have to really catch.
• 1:06:53
  It. Yes.
• 1:06:54
  It's like disappear. It's like barely six weeks long
• 1:06:56
  and then it's gone, yeah. Yeah, it's crazy that it's
• 1:06:59
  pretty short for Figman being like a huge character in the
• 1:07:02
  parks. It's shocking how short it is
• 1:07:04
  actually. And then I love that you put
• 1:07:07
  take a mixed fan. I felt like it was a good one.
• 1:07:13
  That's like, on my list eventually, to splurge and take
• 1:07:15
  a minivan just for funsies, because they're just they're
• 1:07:18
  just fun. They're expensive, but they're
• 1:07:20
  just fun. Yeah, well, I yeah, I I think I
• 1:07:26
  might do that sometime like a minivan.
• 1:07:28
  But I have to be with my family. I do it with my family.
• 1:07:31
  Yeah. Also another thing is one that
• 1:07:35
  I'm going to do this next Turk is go horseback riding.
• 1:07:38
  Sorry. So I'm really excited that I was
• 1:07:42
  given really sweet kind of Christmas gift from from a lot
• 1:07:46
  of the Pocket Fan. And so I'm kind of like picking
• 1:07:49
  and choosing some Disney things that I've never done before that
• 1:07:51
  I really wanted to do. And I really want to see an
• 1:07:53
  armadillo. And I heard that if you go
• 1:07:55
  horseback riding, you might see one.
• 1:07:57
  So that's my bucket list item is seeing an armadillo at Disney
• 1:08:02
  World. Because apparently when they
• 1:08:03
  were building Disney World, they were running around everywhere.
• 1:08:05
  And so they're like native. They said everywhere you'd go,
• 1:08:09
  there'd be an armadillo that like, crosses your path.
• 1:08:11
  So I'm like. What?
• 1:08:12
  I want to see an armadillo Disney World.
• 1:08:17
  Well, just remember that might might not be a given, and it
• 1:08:21
  will be a happy lovely by expectations, yeah.
• 1:08:27
  That's even if not, even if I was just a nice ride through the
• 1:08:31
  Fort Wayne area, I'll be happy. But and I rarely get to ever go
• 1:08:36
  horseback riding. That's such a like.
• 1:08:38
  It's so out of my price range. Excited for that?
• 1:08:40
  Yeah. The next one that we've got on
• 1:08:42
  our bucket list items is one that our friend Kathy B actually
• 1:08:45
  just mentioned over here is doing a tour.
• 1:08:47
  There are so many different tours that you can do at Disney
• 1:08:51
  World and Disneyland, More at Disney World, A few still at
• 1:08:54
  Disneyland that are good. But VIP tours, Behind the scenes
• 1:08:58
  tours at Epcot, Keys to the Kingdom.
• 1:09:01
  Animal Kingdom has a ton of experience tours that you can do
• 1:09:03
  Caring for giants. The Wild Africa trek up close
• 1:09:06
  with the rhinos at Disneyland, they've got Walt's Main Street
• 1:09:09
  Story tour that was free. Go in the apartment.
• 1:09:12
  That's like a great one, yeah. If you want to go in Walt's fire
• 1:09:15
  Firehouse apartment, take the the main streets who are in
• 1:09:18
  Disneyland. So many different options that
• 1:09:21
  you can choose there if you want to splurge, and some are a lot
• 1:09:24
  more. Reasonably priced than others.
• 1:09:27
  Some of those Animal Kingdom ones are really not that
• 1:09:29
  expensive when you down $40 each per person, and the Behind the
• 1:09:34
  Seeds tour is similarly priced. It's about about $40.00, so that
• 1:09:38
  one is, but then the other ones can get a little bit pricey.
• 1:09:42
  They have like AI can't remember what it's called, Sip of the
• 1:09:45
  Savannah, something like that. Tour it's again, Well, Kingdom
• 1:09:48
  where they do like a private vehicle out the Savannah and
• 1:09:51
  then they give you like meal and drinks and things like that.
• 1:09:53
  That one's that one's pricey and the one that's also like the
• 1:09:56
  Trek one Wild Africa track, that one's pretty expensive as well.
• 1:10:00
  Yeah, you get to go over like rope bridges and it's really
• 1:10:03
  cool, so right. Yes.
• 1:10:04
  So again, depends on what you're looking for, and depends on what
• 1:10:07
  you want to spend your money on, but lots of different options
• 1:10:10
  when it comes to that. Now, Michaela says.
• 1:10:13
  For Honeymoon we did horse carriage ride at Port Orleans.
• 1:10:16
  So pretty relaxing. That's another really great one.
• 1:10:19
  Yeah. Involving some horses, yes.
• 1:10:21
  Love it. Another one that I would love to
• 1:10:24
  someday do is taking a fireworks cruise.
• 1:10:27
  So they let you rent out the boats that they take you out on?
• 1:10:31
  Is that 7 Seas Lagoon? I always get the bodies of water
• 1:10:35
  wrong. Whatever I'm thinking about what
• 1:10:37
  their names the. One with the hotels, like right
• 1:10:40
  around it is 7 Seas because they're supposed to be hotels
• 1:10:43
  that represented the Seven Seas. Makes sense how I remember it.
• 1:10:46
  There you go. See and I'll they.
• 1:10:47
  Couldn't build them because there's sinkholes everywhere.
• 1:10:50
  Yeah, Florida, great. But you can rent out the boats
• 1:10:55
  on the Seven Seas Lagoon and take them out for a fireworks
• 1:10:59
  cruise. It's if you've got a big enough
• 1:11:02
  group, it's fairly decently priced because it is like per
• 1:11:07
  boat and you can have up to I think 10 people that go with
• 1:11:11
  you. So again, pricing dependent on
• 1:11:14
  what you want to spend? Yeah, I I really wanted to do
• 1:11:19
  that. But I was like, it's just a lot,
• 1:11:20
  it's a lot of money. Yeah.
• 1:11:22
  So I don't know. We'll see.
• 1:11:27
  You can also attend a party or after hours event, those
• 1:11:30
  especially we've seen a lot this year.
• 1:11:31
  We had the new Jollywood happened this year at Hollywood
• 1:11:35
  Studios and then of course Mickey's Very Merry Christmas
• 1:11:38
  party. And Mickey's not so scary
• 1:11:40
  Christmas party. All the Christmas all the part
• 1:11:42
  not Christmas party, Halloween party.
• 1:11:44
  Sorry, everybody's gonna come after me.
• 1:11:46
  No Halloween party. We just came out of Christmas.
• 1:11:49
  My brain's there. So, so there's there's all kinds
• 1:11:52
  of events that happen and then you know some of these festivals
• 1:11:55
  as well will have extra workshops and concerts and and
• 1:11:59
  things like that that you can can go to, which are really fun.
• 1:12:03
  Yeah, and a couple maybe less costly things that you can do.
• 1:12:12
  Buy a new type of souvenir. Buy buy yourself a pair of these
• 1:12:16
  lovely Mickey Ears. There's so many different
• 1:12:19
  options. And I know a lot of people are
• 1:12:21
  like, I don't know, just just do it.
• 1:12:23
  You'll be glad you did. They're fun.
• 1:12:26
  Jackie the enabler. I don't need more ears.
• 1:12:29
  I'm not enabling. I'm just encouraging.
• 1:12:32
  There's a difference. No, that's good, though.
• 1:12:33
  I mean, there's a lot of souvenirs.
• 1:12:35
  So I'm just like, oh, I love that.
• 1:12:36
  But I'm like, oh, that's But that's too much, you know?
• 1:12:38
  And I've like, for years I've said that's too much.
• 1:12:40
  And that's a really neat kind of thing.
• 1:12:42
  It's like maybe it's just become something really special, that
• 1:12:44
  that's like your thing that you save up for, you know?
• 1:12:47
  So I love that. Yeah.
• 1:12:49
  Yeah, a new mug. Mug's good one too.
• 1:12:51
  Offered like a cup, like big big Asian one.
• 1:12:56
  So also looking for hidden Mickeys.
• 1:12:58
  We've talked about this before, that's a really fun thing to
• 1:13:01
  start doing if you've never tried it.
• 1:13:02
  So that's a really fun. There's some great books out
• 1:13:04
  there about finding hidden Mickeys and also websites and
• 1:13:07
  stuff too if you don't want to buy a book for it.
• 1:13:10
  And then there's also I have a Disney History Scavenger Hunts.
• 1:13:14
  I have two currently that are at disneysisteron.com.
• 1:13:18
  If you just literally search for Disney History Scavenger Hunt,
• 1:13:22
  it's probably the first thing will pop up in Google.
• 1:13:24
  Like my SCO is like amazing for that, so.
• 1:13:28
  But it's also around and we'll try to link it in the show notes
• 1:13:32
  as well for anybody who wants to do them.
• 1:13:34
  But I have one for Magic Kingdom and I have one for Disneyland,
• 1:13:36
  and they're just like 20 items. They're printable, they're free,
• 1:13:40
  and then you can go and take them and look for some Disney
• 1:13:42
  history while you're in the parks.
• 1:13:45
  And it is something I'm considering making into a book
• 1:13:48
  with links to my content. So we'll see.
• 1:13:50
  If I'm some 2024, we'll see. Add it to the list.
• 1:13:55
  Somewhere, right? Yeah.
• 1:13:57
  There's other Disney scavenger hunts that are out there as
• 1:13:59
  well. So if you don't want to use any
• 1:14:01
  history specific one, there's plenty out there that you can
• 1:14:03
  search on Pinterest and things like that just to to do a fun
• 1:14:06
  little scavenger hunt with your kids or yourself.
• 1:14:11
  Absolutely. And I'll and we've talked about
• 1:14:13
  the Epcot Festival, scavenger hunts and all those types of
• 1:14:16
  things too. So lots of different hunting
• 1:14:18
  options. If that's something that if your
• 1:14:20
  kids are like my kids and they love to do those.
• 1:14:22
  So yes, definitely a fun thing to do when you're in the parks.
• 1:14:26
  Also another one that is fun to do while you're in the parks is
• 1:14:29
  trying a new Disney bound. Kate is like the the Queen of
• 1:14:33
  Disney. Bounds.
• 1:14:34
  No, I do enjoy. Doing it, yeah, lots of.
• 1:14:39
  It's lots of fun options. If you don't know what Disney
• 1:14:41
  Bounding is, it's essentially dressing so that your attire
• 1:14:45
  kind of alludes to a character. Think like a couple steps back
• 1:14:49
  from being in like a costume. You know that Disney does not
• 1:14:52
  allow anyone 14 and older. I think it is to do costumes in
• 1:14:58
  the parks, unless it's like a special like Halloween event.
• 1:15:01
  But if you want to dress like a character, you can Disney bound
• 1:15:04
  to wear your colors in the the combination of your outfit kind
• 1:15:07
  of allude to a character. Yeah, and it's real fun.
• 1:15:12
  And I like to make mine kind of subtle but still kind of there.
• 1:15:16
  And it's it's a really fun thing to do and there's all kinds of
• 1:15:19
  ideas on Pinterest for that. So if you need a place to go,
• 1:15:21
  that's where I would recommend searching.
• 1:15:23
  If you need Disneybound ideas, I found a few on there and then I
• 1:15:27
  just kind of tweak it and making my own as well.
• 1:15:29
  So. Yeah, and now if you've got
• 1:15:32
  younger kids that maybe don't want to bound but want to go all
• 1:15:35
  out when it comes to dressing up for in the parks.
• 1:15:39
  Doing something like Bippity Poppity Boutique can be a fun
• 1:15:43
  bucket list item for them to to be able to do when you're in the
• 1:15:46
  parks. Yeah, it's not a cheap one, but
• 1:15:50
  they do have they have options for boys as well as girls.
• 1:15:54
  They've got little like Prince outfits and things they can
• 1:15:57
  choose. Or pirate I think was the other
• 1:15:58
  one. Prince or Pirate?
• 1:15:59
  I don't know that the Pirate 1 exists anymore.
• 1:16:02
  It's been researched that but. Did I?
• 1:16:06
  Don't think it ever came back after the world shut down and
• 1:16:11
  then I think they announced that it wasn't coming back if I
• 1:16:14
  remember correctly. But I know the Prince One is an
• 1:16:16
  option at the at the current location in Magic Kingdom.
• 1:16:21
  And then they do have the Barber shop as well.
• 1:16:24
  I think that you can, there's a cheaper option that you can go
• 1:16:26
  and get a little haircut, which is fun.
• 1:16:28
  That one's much cheaper than, but a little bit different of
• 1:16:32
  experience. And if you if you, you know your
• 1:16:36
  kids can get all beautiful. But if you want to get maybe
• 1:16:39
  something too, There's a book, a spa appointment at the Grand
• 1:16:43
  Floridian. Some of the other places have
• 1:16:45
  spas as well, but I've actually been to the Grand Floridian one
• 1:16:49
  once. I'm not like a habit, like it
• 1:16:52
  was a gift. So it's like, you know, but but
• 1:16:56
  I think we got massages. I think we got couples massage
• 1:16:59
  or something. That was a gift gifted to us
• 1:17:00
  back when we had really little kids and it was so welcome.
• 1:17:03
  But it's a very relaxing spot. It's walkable, just right from
• 1:17:06
  the Grand Floridian, or you can take the monorail route there
• 1:17:09
  and it's it's wonderful. So that's definitely a splurge
• 1:17:12
  though, but that's a nice little self pampering thing.
• 1:17:16
  Yeah, and hey, that's what bucket list items are.
• 1:17:18
  Fun when you get to splurge a little, I think.
• 1:17:20
  That's right. That's right.
• 1:17:22
  I feel like I have to explain this next one.
• 1:17:24
  Yes, please call me. I know of it, but I'm going to
• 1:17:27
  let you because you know way more about it than I do.
• 1:17:30
  OK so this one I'm going to the prefaces was saying this is not
• 1:17:33
  for children. This is an adult only thing to
• 1:17:37
  do and or maybe like very older children, like older teens.
• 1:17:42
  But this is the chef's counter at Napa Rose.
• 1:17:45
  So if you've never heard of this, just buckle up for a
• 1:17:48
  second because it's a thing. OK, so I did this with my
• 1:17:51
  husband a long time ago now, but it's still still is going on
• 1:17:55
  there. We did it for an anniversary
• 1:17:57
  because it was special. It's usually around $150.00 per
• 1:18:00
  person. It can be a little bit more if
• 1:18:01
  you choose a package that comes with like wine that's curated
• 1:18:04
  for your meal. But it's you actually sit at the
• 1:18:08
  counter right around the kitchen and like a pastry chef area
• 1:18:13
  where they're preparing the food and you get to talk to the chef
• 1:18:16
  while they're preparing the food.
• 1:18:19
  And you get to kind of like watch what's happening in the
• 1:18:20
  kitchen. And then they get a six to seven
• 1:18:23
  course meal that they curate for you.
• 1:18:27
  So they ask you a bunch of questions about what you like to
• 1:18:30
  eat, what your flavors are, if you have any allergies, all
• 1:18:33
  those kinds of things. And then they just go and like
• 1:18:36
  make a meal. It's based on what they
• 1:18:38
  currently have available in the kitchen.
• 1:18:39
  So just like, just know that like, they can't just like go
• 1:18:42
  prepare something totally wild, but they will.
• 1:18:45
  Like my menu was completely different than my husband's
• 1:18:47
  because he likes spicy food and things like that.
• 1:18:49
  So, like, it was fascinating to see what they decided to give us
• 1:18:53
  to eat. Because you don't order
• 1:18:54
  yourself, you don't order what you want.
• 1:18:56
  They just give you food based on what they think you might like.
• 1:18:59
  And it's such a cool experience and getting to like, really
• 1:19:03
  watch them in action and see how the kitchen functions and stuff.
• 1:19:06
  And then it for $150.00 for a six to seven course meal at
• 1:19:09
  Disney and out of the best restaurants at Disney because
• 1:19:12
  it's Napa Rose is in the Grand Floridian in Disneyland, in case
• 1:19:15
  you don't know where it is. It's an amazing experience.
• 1:19:19
  So it's that being said, it's very difficult to get these
• 1:19:22
  reservations. OK, so here's what you do if you
• 1:19:25
  want to get a reservation. Write this down.
• 1:19:28
  Write it. Down so the reservations for the
• 1:19:33
  Napa Rose Chef's counter open on the first day of the month, two
• 1:19:37
  months prior to when you plan to dine.
• 1:19:39
  OK you have to call the restaurant directly.
• 1:19:43
  It is 714-300-7170 and you have to call precisely at 12 O 1:00
• 1:19:51
  AM on the day of that reservation.
• 1:19:54
  The the the availability opens for your intended date and then
• 1:19:58
  you leave a detailed message. So the restaurant probably won't
• 1:20:00
  be open. They're probably not going to
• 1:20:01
  answer the phone. You're going to leave a
• 1:20:02
  voicemail, OK? Oh my goodness, this is this is
• 1:20:06
  involved. Include your name, your contact
• 1:20:09
  information, the dining party, size of how many people you
• 1:20:11
  have, your desired reservation, date and preferences for a
• 1:20:14
  seating time. Then the Napros team will listen
• 1:20:17
  to those voicemails based on the order that they received them
• 1:20:20
  and give you basically a call back or and they'll or the and
• 1:20:23
  they'll like make the help you make the reservation.
• 1:20:25
  It might take a couple days for them to get to you depending on
• 1:20:27
  how many there are. So just like you book any dining
• 1:20:30
  reservation, you have to be on time, you have to be on your
• 1:20:33
  game, and you have to know what you're doing.
• 1:20:34
  OK, That's like not through the regular dining reservation
• 1:20:38
  thing. So this is like totally
• 1:20:39
  different thing. It's a very, very special and it
• 1:20:42
  is 100% worth it for the price that you pay.
• 1:20:45
  So if you want to splurge on, like the coolest dining
• 1:20:48
  experience you could have at Disneyland, in my opinion,
• 1:20:51
  outside of like Club 33, which I can't, you know, finagle your
• 1:20:56
  way and I know somebody. Why is Club 33 not on our?
• 1:20:59
  List I know. Right.
• 1:21:01
  I think it should be. Let's add that Nicks.
• 1:21:04
  But yeah, like, so anyway, Napa Rose Chef's counter.
• 1:21:09
  If it's not on your bucket list and you're a foodie, put it on
• 1:21:11
  your list now. There you go.
• 1:21:13
  Then I also say yes, Club 33 is for sure on a bucket list for
• 1:21:16
  everybody. It's not something that you can
• 1:21:18
  get to without knowing somebody. You got to know somebody.
• 1:21:22
  It's not something you can even buy your way into necessarily.
• 1:21:25
  You have to know somebody who is a member.
• 1:21:28
  I've I've gotten to go just because of a friend of a friend,
• 1:21:32
  kind of like invited me along, which was really sweet of my
• 1:21:35
  friend. It was actually a friend of mine
• 1:21:37
  who is a also a Disney creator who's a Disney photographer who
• 1:21:40
  married me and my husband. So it's just really fun that he
• 1:21:44
  invited me a lot. So it's a really cool experience
• 1:21:47
  if you ever get to go to Club 33, the food is amazing.
• 1:21:50
  It's outrageously priced. It's really neat.
• 1:21:54
  They have like those, like a baton, like a ghost bear that
• 1:21:58
  like disappears from the frame and shows up in another frame in
• 1:22:00
  another part of the restaurant that's.
• 1:22:02
  Cool. Yeah.
• 1:22:03
  And they have this very old French elevator lift that that
• 1:22:06
  used to be operational. It's not anymore.
• 1:22:08
  So they kind of just put it in the lounge.
• 1:22:10
  I haven't been in the dining room yet, so that's still on my
• 1:22:12
  bucket list because I was just in the lounge area.
• 1:22:14
  But they have the old vulture that used to like, listen in on
• 1:22:18
  conversations. They used to have birds that
• 1:22:19
  were supposed to, like, talk back to people after listening
• 1:22:21
  to their conversations. And then they realized that,
• 1:22:23
  like, people that go to Club 33 probably don't want people
• 1:22:25
  listening to their conversations.
• 1:22:27
  Yeah, probably. Know that.
• 1:22:29
  Probably, probably not. They also have like a a phone
• 1:22:32
  booth from The Happiest Millionaire.
• 1:22:34
  So if you're know that Disney movie, The actual prop from it
• 1:22:38
  is in Club 33, so there's lots of really special things you can
• 1:22:42
  see in there 100%. Put it on your bucket list.
• 1:22:45
  If it's not, it's just it's you have to know somebody, so go
• 1:22:49
  make friends, but not to get in the Club 33 because that's just
• 1:22:51
  icky. So yeah.
• 1:22:52
  Don't do that. Don't take advantage of people,
• 1:22:54
  but make new friends. Make new friends, yes.
• 1:22:59
  And then the last item that we have that we came up with on
• 1:23:03
  this kind of quick and concise bucket list so to speak is
• 1:23:09
  starting pin trading or just collecting pins of some sort.
• 1:23:13
  So we talked a little bit about Mickey Ears earlier, but maybe
• 1:23:17
  pin trading is more something that interests you.
• 1:23:20
  So maybe just just do it and I. I'd never really been a pin
• 1:23:26
  trader. I traded my first pin this last
• 1:23:28
  year, which was was very nice of perker Wallace Carp to give me a
• 1:23:32
  pin to trade. So I have now my pin and I will
• 1:23:34
  never let it go because I'm bad at pin trading.
• 1:23:36
  I collect, I collect them more than trade.
• 1:23:38
  And something I started doing for my family was I got them for
• 1:23:42
  Christmas. I got them all these like, felt
• 1:23:46
  hexagons that you can stick on the wall, that you can stick
• 1:23:48
  pins into. And then every time I go to
• 1:23:52
  Disney without them, I get a pin that reminds me of them and then
• 1:23:56
  they put on their wall and so they know I was thinking of them
• 1:23:58
  during the trip. It's like it was it's partially
• 1:24:00
  a way to like, remind, make me think like meaningful gifts for
• 1:24:03
  them instead of like just whatever I can find.
• 1:24:06
  Also like it's expensive to get gifts at Disney Disney when you
• 1:24:08
  go every month. So I was like what can I get
• 1:24:12
  that makes me, makes them know I was thinking of them, but isn't
• 1:24:14
  super expensive and is more meaningful.
• 1:24:16
  So that's what we do now is we all kind of collect pins from
• 1:24:19
  each other and they all kind of go on our wall and that's a
• 1:24:23
  little special pin thing that I started this year.
• 1:24:25
  So I love that. That's so sweet.
• 1:24:27
  Yeah. I am also bad at trading.
• 1:24:30
  I have taken like a pin to trade and then like I go to do it and
• 1:24:33
  I'm like, I don't, I don't know if I want to.
• 1:24:37
  I just want to keep it because I like the pin.
• 1:24:40
  I know, right? Yeah.
• 1:24:42
  It's the only ones I want to trade are like the garbage pins
• 1:24:44
  and I don't want to do that kind of do ones that are like, not,
• 1:24:47
  Yeah, sure. You know, so yeah, it's.
• 1:24:50
  Tricky. It's tricky.
• 1:24:52
  Maybe someday. Maybe I should add that I should
• 1:24:55
  I should? Step out of your comfort zone.
• 1:24:57
  Break your goats Rules about bin training, Jackie.
• 1:25:00
  Well, I'm also just like I made a rule for myself a long time
• 1:25:04
  ago that I'm really not supposed to collect pins because that
• 1:25:08
  will just open a giant can of worms that will just put me into
• 1:25:12
  mass amounts of Disney debt if I start doing pin collecting.
• 1:25:18
  So I told my husband this oh gosh, probably a decade ago.
• 1:25:21
  Like when he and I first started going to Disney together, I
• 1:25:24
  promised him that I would not do it.
• 1:25:27
  Well, I've been gifted pins by different people.
• 1:25:29
  So I have a small collection, but I don't think, I don't think
• 1:25:34
  I've purchased any of the ones that I have.
• 1:25:36
  I think they've all been gifted to me by various different
• 1:25:40
  lovely people. But yeah, so I I I'm, I'm just
• 1:25:44
  not allowed because I can't let myself do that.
• 1:25:47
  I just collect 25 pairs of ears. Instead.
• 1:25:50
  Me too. Well, I told that my husband, I
• 1:25:53
  wasn't going to get into like, lounge flies and then he bought
• 1:25:56
  me one because he's like, you should have one of these.
• 1:25:59
  And now I can't stop buying them.
• 1:26:01
  And I'm like, this is bad. They're expensive.
• 1:26:03
  I try to get them on sale. At least that's my goal.
• 1:26:05
  It's always getting like half price by great, they're spendy.
• 1:26:08
  Yes, they are. But they take it out of space
• 1:26:10
  too. Bucket list, bucket list, Bucket
• 1:26:13
  list. That's fine.
• 1:26:14
  It makes it. It's my, it's like, Oh my.
• 1:26:17
  But just bucket list it and it makes it OK.
• 1:26:19
  I know one of the things on my bucket list that I didn't put on
• 1:26:22
  here is that I just, I want to collect some, like, Disney
• 1:26:26
  memorabilia. That's like, like, I want like
• 1:26:28
  some concept art. I want some like a cell one day,
• 1:26:32
  you know, someday it's gonna be a long time.
• 1:26:34
  I want something from the Disney parks that, you know, I have
• 1:26:37
  things from opening year because from behind me, because of my
• 1:26:40
  mom. But you know, I just want like
• 1:26:43
  to get AI, see these things at auction all the time, because
• 1:26:46
  I'm always on the auctions just looking at the stuff posted, not
• 1:26:49
  to buy, just to look at it. I love that.
• 1:26:53
  Someday I'm going to buy one. That's that's what I'm going to
• 1:26:55
  do. Bucket list item.
• 1:26:56
  Someday. Yeah.
• 1:26:58
  There you go. Yeah.
• 1:26:59
  Lounge flies are dangerous. I agree.
• 1:27:00
  Yes. Yes.
• 1:27:02
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:27:07
  Well, we won't go there. All right, well, shall we move
• 1:27:10
  on to our final portion for our podcast episode?
• 1:27:13
  Here would be our Ask the Mom section which if you don't know
• 1:27:18
  what this is, this is the where we take a question from our Mom
• 1:27:21
  St. audience and we it's usually not related to the topic we're
• 1:27:26
  talking about and then we just we chat about it a little bit.
• 1:27:28
  So, Jackie, what do we got for? Ask the Moms.
• 1:27:31
  Yes. So this one is is kind of
• 1:27:33
  loaded, so we may just have to be a little brief with it and
• 1:27:35
  maybe can elaborate on it in a future episode.
• 1:27:38
  But the question is, I'm taking a last minute trip.
• 1:27:41
  What are the top priority things that I need to make sure are
• 1:27:45
  done before I leave for this trip?
• 1:27:47
  So this is, this is not me, OK. We're talking about my over
• 1:27:53
  planning but last minute trip what are like top priority
• 1:27:58
  things that you need to make sure are done before you leave.
• 1:28:01
  We're talking on the Disney side, not like in your home, no,
• 1:28:04
  right. Yes, I would say on the Disney
• 1:28:06
  side because like tracking and all that kind of stuff are kind
• 1:28:08
  of those those Givens that like we have no control over.
• 1:28:12
  But I would say yes, on the Disney end of things, what are
• 1:28:15
  the things that you need to make sure are done before you leave?
• 1:28:18
  Like, check the big The big things aren't in place, and I
• 1:28:21
  did, since I travel often and sometimes I forget to book
• 1:28:24
  things because I'm like, I don't plan far in advance for
• 1:28:27
  everything. It's just me.
• 1:28:28
  Make sure that you have, like, your transportation to and from
• 1:28:32
  airports on both sides, right? Make sure you have your park
• 1:28:35
  ticket, your park reservation. Make sure they're in your app or
• 1:28:39
  accessible or linked to your magic band.
• 1:28:40
  If you have a magic band, make sure your hotel reservation is
• 1:28:45
  not canceled. That's important, that is.
• 1:28:48
  Very important. If or at least ready to like
• 1:28:51
  that, it's all there. You can also check in online.
• 1:28:53
  If it's a Disney World one, you can check in in advance.
• 1:28:56
  It's not necessary to check in in advance, but you can.
• 1:28:58
  And you can put some preferences about where you'd like to stay
• 1:29:01
  ish on some of those. Do you want to say a few?
• 1:29:06
  I'm talking a lot. No, I think you hit most of what
• 1:29:08
  I would say just those big items because pretty much anything
• 1:29:12
  else if you're looking at Genie Plus or dining or the little
• 1:29:17
  extras, you can handle that like once you get there for the most
• 1:29:20
  part if you're not super particular, but yeah, making
• 1:29:24
  sure your flight, your transportation, your hotel and
• 1:29:28
  your tickets, like those are your your big ones.
• 1:29:32
  Yeah. And dining is something where
• 1:29:35
  you can. If you're already late in the
• 1:29:37
  game for dining, then it's like, you know, you're more likely to
• 1:29:41
  maybe get some cancellations that, you know, within the two
• 1:29:45
  days before and 24 hours before. You might be able to cut, catch
• 1:29:48
  a couple cancellations if you really want a dining
• 1:29:50
  reservation. Otherwise, I wouldn't stress out
• 1:29:53
  about it. I would just plan to eat quick
• 1:29:55
  service. That'll just be easier for you
• 1:29:57
  in general and you don't have to stress about.
• 1:29:58
  And there's lots of great places to eat, more so in Disneyland
• 1:30:01
  than Disney World. But right, there's some great
• 1:30:04
  there's always options for quick service where you don't have to
• 1:30:07
  make a reservation. Yeah.
• 1:30:08
  And I would also include with that if you're someone who
• 1:30:11
  typically plans like a year, nine months, a year out and you
• 1:30:14
  have like a typical planner that you use.
• 1:30:16
  We talked about planners earlier, we have a Mom St. one.
• 1:30:19
  I would still like read through the items on there to like help
• 1:30:22
  make sure you've got everything too when it comes to packing,
• 1:30:25
  when it comes to booking reservations, whatever it may
• 1:30:29
  be, even if you're not doing it in the time frame that's on that
• 1:30:32
  list, it's still something to consider doing.
• 1:30:35
  So I would still go through and read through a standard booking
• 1:30:40
  timeline and make sure that you have everything done through
• 1:30:43
  there too. Yeah, on a packing list too is a
• 1:30:46
  is a good one because I can't tell you how many times I've
• 1:30:48
  gotten. They're like, I forgot my
• 1:30:49
  sunscreen, I forgot that, you know, I forgot my sunglasses.
• 1:30:52
  Like that's the basic things. And I like, I forgot like pain
• 1:30:56
  medicine this last trip. And I was like, it's expensive
• 1:30:58
  to buy pain. Medicine there.
• 1:31:01
  My last trip when literally the one that we just went on in
• 1:31:03
  November, I forgot my all my pajamas.
• 1:31:07
  Awesome. I was like.
• 1:31:08
  Cool. Luckily, like, I had clothes.
• 1:31:11
  You know what I mean? Like, so, like, we could make it
• 1:31:12
  work. But I was like, I literally got
• 1:31:14
  there the first night. I was like, I don't, OK.
• 1:31:17
  I forgot my pajamas and my husband was like, how I was
• 1:31:20
  like, I don't know, OK? But you packed them for your
• 1:31:23
  kids, I'm sure, and. When I forgot my swimsuit, which
• 1:31:27
  I didn't end up needing because my kids were sick anyway and we
• 1:31:30
  didn't end up going swimming. But Swimsuit's a.
• 1:31:33
  Tough one. If you forget that, it's like so
• 1:31:35
  you're almost as done or you have to go to target or
• 1:31:38
  something and. Like, make it happen, right?
• 1:31:40
  And I was like, well, I was like that one I can deal without
• 1:31:42
  because like, even if they had gone swimming, I can just go sit
• 1:31:44
  on the edge because that's usually what I do anyway.
• 1:31:46
  I'm not a huge swimmer anyway, but it was like, yeah, my
• 1:31:49
  swimsuit and my pajamas. I was like, well, awesome.
• 1:31:53
  Well. You know when you still had a
• 1:31:56
  great trip so it's like you're not going to panic, but if you
• 1:31:58
  don't have your like, well, park reservations for Disney World
• 1:32:01
  are kind of changing soon So that but.
• 1:32:03
  But. Don't let that mislead you.
• 1:32:06
  Yes, just. Because you have everything you
• 1:32:08
  need and it's all in place. And also I would, I would say
• 1:32:11
  also if you're going to Disney World in particular, know your
• 1:32:14
  virtual cues for the days you're going.
• 1:32:16
  Make sure you you're on top of the rides that you absolutely
• 1:32:19
  want to do for each day, even if you do this on the airplane on
• 1:32:23
  the way there, which I do that because I go often.
• 1:32:29
  But, you know, sketch out a general sketch of like what it
• 1:32:31
  is you want to do every day, even if it's written in your
• 1:32:34
  notes app on your phone. Just like have have an idea of
• 1:32:36
  what you want to do so that you're not taking you just like,
• 1:32:39
  oh gosh, we totally missed the boat.
• 1:32:41
  We didn't wake up by 7:00. We didn't book the thing and now
• 1:32:43
  we can't go at it, you know. Right.
• 1:32:44
  So. I often will like again, I'm
• 1:32:47
  just crazy. I I plan things on spreadsheets,
• 1:32:50
  but then like sometimes I do transfer them to the Notes app
• 1:32:53
  because they have the little checklist that you can check
• 1:32:56
  mark. Love the checks.
• 1:33:00
  It's so satisfying, I know. It's so satisfying.
• 1:33:03
  Then it moves to the bottom of the list and.
• 1:33:04
  I'm like ha done. So great.
• 1:33:07
  Yep. I have a question from Ryan.
• 1:33:09
  Are there stores close to Walt Disney World property like
• 1:33:11
  Walmart and Target? And I don't have a car.
• 1:33:15
  So, Jackie, you got to answer. Yes.
• 1:33:17
  I became very well acquainted with the Walmart close to
• 1:33:20
  property on my last trip because I had to go there several times
• 1:33:23
  for medicine for my children because they were sick.
• 1:33:25
  Kids. Yes, but but yes, there are, I
• 1:33:29
  mean like 3 Walmarts within a 20 minute drive and at least one or
• 1:33:33
  two targets too. So like, yes, plenty of things
• 1:33:36
  that you can either Uber or Lyft to.
• 1:33:39
  There's also like and if you're looking like grocery store
• 1:33:42
  specific, they're also like specific grocery stores and lots
• 1:33:45
  of things around. So yeah, definitely easy to
• 1:33:48
  either drive there or like. I think I even picked one of the
• 1:33:51
  ones that was further out that I went to because I was like, I
• 1:33:54
  need to get away from the crazy because it was Thanksgiving
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  week. So like there were so many cars
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  everywhere. And that one I think even still
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  only took me 15 minutes to get to from our resort.
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  So when I. I always do like because I don't
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  have a car when I go to Disney and I do, you can order
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  groceries online. I do like the Amazon one.
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  I don't remember what it's called Prime Now.
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  I think it's what it's called. It was on Prime Now and like
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  I've you can order things that are not just like grocery items.
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  If you need like toiletries and things like that, I forget your
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  toothbrush or whatever. So that I've done that.
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  And then as long as it doesn't have alcohol in it, Bell
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  services can usually hold it for you and you can get it.
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  When you come back to your resort, you can call and they'll
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  they'll give it to you there, they'll bring it up to your
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  room. So just make sure you have you
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  tip them. So have some cash on hand with
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  that, Yes, but that's handy. Yeah, I always have to remind
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  myself when I'm packing because packing just stresses me out.
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  I always have to remind myself again.
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  If I forget something, there is a way that I can get it.
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  If it's something that I absolutely need, I just may have
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  to go without for a few hours or whatever it may be.
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  But I just I I always have to remind myself that which I feel
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  like I must have reminded myself that too many times this last
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  trip because I forgot so many things, because I don't normally
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  forget things. But you know, it happens.
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  Yeah. What all it's crazy time of year
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  you went during Christmas time so that that'll do it.
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  But they I I'm a traditional over Packer, like chronic over
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  Packer. Every single time.
• 1:35:23
  I'm like I'm only going for like 2 days to Disneyland.
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  I have two suitcases. I'm like who am I?
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  Like it's crazy but I need like I need.
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  I found though I enjoy my trip less if I'm if I don't want to
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  wear the only things I brought to wear and I'm like don't have
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  options and then I get really stressed out.
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  So I was like, I'm not going to do that to myself.
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  I'm just going to pack when I need some.
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  Yeah. So moral of the story, even if
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  you do a last minute trip, yes, it's going to be OK, You're
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  still going to be able to do the majority of things that you want
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  to do. And you were talking.
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  I do just want to mention you were talking about dining
• 1:35:52
  reservations. I was there the week of
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  Thanksgiving and like Topolino's terrace, that morning time
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  character meal is a hard reservation to get.
• 1:36:02
  There were like 6 available week of.
• 1:36:05
  Yeah, it had open pretty a lot. And when I I had had several
• 1:36:10
  like dining alerts set up, didn't get anything for the six
• 1:36:15
  weeks that I had set it up for and then there were like four or
• 1:36:19
  five at least that I know for sure were like popped up while
• 1:36:23
  we were there, so. You know, there's a lot of
• 1:36:25
  people that hoard them. You know, they they make a lot
• 1:36:28
  and they're like, we'll probably won't use all these, but we'll
• 1:36:30
  have them just in case. And though that's annoying, but
• 1:36:34
  it also is nice for how many usually open up the week of when
• 1:36:39
  you're in. So it's great for last minute
• 1:36:41
  travelers because you're more likely to get a reservation with
• 1:36:45
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• 1:38:09
  planning to do in 2024. As far as what we're planning to
• 1:38:14
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• 1:38:17
  mapped out some ideas for what we have coming.
• 1:38:21
  Kate mentioned some Disney Cruise Line information coming
• 1:38:26
  your way that'll be closer to like spring summertime, but
• 1:38:30
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• 1:38:33
  The next podcast episode that we do, I think is a really good
• 1:38:36
  one. We're going to be talking about
• 1:38:38
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• 1:38:43
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• 1:38:46
  So that's going to be one that we're going to be talking about.
• 1:38:49
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• 1:38:52
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• 1:38:55
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• 1:39:11
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• 1:39:12
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• 1:39:15
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• 1:39:17
  come. So Jackie, do you have any final
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  thoughts as we wrap? Up here, I think I said it all.
• 1:39:23
  All right, well, happy 2024 everybody from Mom St.
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