Weekend of Musical Contrasts

Alicea 0:25

Hello everyone , I'm Alicea .

Nathan 0:26

And I'm Nathan

Alicea 0:27

Welcome to this week's episode of Adventures and Mousecapades .

Nathan 0:31

This week we're going to talk about a little bit of cultural whiplash that we have just undergone .

Alicea 0:37

Oh yeah

Nathan 0:38

Last weekend we saw the Backstreet Boys play at the S phere in Las Vegas .

Alicea 0:44

That was awesome .

Nathan 0:46

That was an amazing show .

Alicea 0:47

Yes

Nathan 0:49

Last night we saw Weird Al play a Backstreet Boys parody live at the White River Amphitheater here in the Seattle area . Also amazing , but the complete opposite end of the spectrum .

Alicea 1:02

Complete opposite . Not just that song , it was a , it was a full concert .

Nathan 1:05

yes , yeah , it was so much fun last night .

Alicea 1:09

It was a lot of fun .

Nathan 1:11

It was a very late night we had a meet and greet . It was after the show . No joke , we didn't get home until like 2 15 in the morning .

Alicea 1:21

yeah , and this was all four of us . The kids were with us too .

Nathan 1:24

Yes

Alicea 1:24

Lots of fun .

Nathan 1:26

Which is ironic because I think the latest we were out in Vegas was like one .

Alicea 1:32

Yeah , we didn't have to travel that far either .

Nathan 1:36

True , it took us an hour to get home because there was a major highway that was closed for the weekend . So thanks , Seattle . Anyhow .

Alicea 1:46

What are we talking about this week , Nathan ?

Theme Park Roulette: Epcot Edition

Nathan 1:54

Well , what we're doing this week is another episode of Theme Park Roulette . This time it's Epcot edition . So Alicea is going to spin the wheel and we're going to pick all sorts of stuff . We're going to pick . Basically , we're going to let the wheel choose our day and figure out what we have to go do .

Alicea 2:12

Yeah

Nathan 2:14

And yeah , let's see how this thing works .

Alicea 2:16

All right , so we already know the park . It's Epcot , so now we're going to find out what type of wait time we are going to have .

Nathan 2:25

Oh God

Alicea 2:26

So like standby lightning lane , those are the options .

Nathan 2:30

Okay , no whammies , no whammies . VIP tour . Let's go .

Alicea 2:36

Oh , I don't have that as an option .

Nathan 2:38

Damn it .

Alicea 2:40

Should I add that for the future ?

Alicea 2:41

No !

Nathan 2:42

Yes !

Alicea 2:42

Because that would be not . . . Okay

Alicea 2:43

I add that for the future . standby .

Nathan 2:55

Looks like we are getting

Alicea 2:59

No , All right Types . . . of rides . So for this I have rides 10 years old or older .

Nathan 3:07

Okay .

Alicea 3:08

Rides under 10 years old .

Alicea 3:09

Opening day rides , or opening , I guess , a couple . . . years

Alicea 3:12

rides yeah , something like that .

Nathan 3:14

Yeah , all right Click , click , click , click , click , click , click , click , click , click .

Nathan 3:19

We pay for really top notch sound sound effects here .

Alicea 3:21

Rides 10 years or older

Nathan 3:29

Rides 10 years or older , okay , so what does that rule out ? So that's gonna .. .

Nathan 3:31

I mean clearly that's gonna knock Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind off .

Alicea 3:33

Yeah , um for Epcot . . . It knocks off Guardians and Remy's Ratatouille Adventure . That's it ,

Nathan 3:39

okay . . .

Alicea 3:41

I mean , there's attractions too . . .

Nathan 3:46

Frozen

Nathan 3:49

No , I think that was Because that is a rework of the original ride , so I will give you . The original ride is more than 10 years old .

Alicea 3:57

Yeah .

Nathan 3:58

But when did they redo it and does that count ?

Alicea 4:04

That would yeah , that would knock it off too . It opened in 2016 .

Nathan 4:10

Okay , and we're not going to count that . That's just a glow up of the original .

Alicea 4:14

We're going to count that as a new ride . I mean , they totally redid that ride , okay .

Nathan 4:20

Yeah , I'm okay with this . I'm okay with this . We can leave it off , okay . I mean mean , I'm not super interested in it , so it's fine .

Alicea 4:29

Okay

Nathan 4:31

All right . Uh , let's see . The next thing we need to spin the wheel for is types of restaurants . Spin that wheel , Alicea !

Alicea 4:39

It's spinning . Look at it spinning .

Spinning the Wheel for Our Day

Alicea 4:45

It is landing on , oh , character dining okay , oh , um . So that gives us two options .

Nathan 4:52

All right , all right , all right okay , all right , I guess we're doing all character dining all day yeah okay now .

Alicea 4:58

Now we're gonna do the month , the week and the day okay month we have april , okay . Right in the middle spring break , okay . Great week number uh .

Nathan 5:10

Week number three okay all right towards the end of spring breaks ? Yeah , all right .

Alicea 5:18

What day in the week , day of the week is ?

Alicea 5:21

Tuesday . Okay , so that is the . That is is Tuesday , april 15th .

Nathan 5:28

Okay , middle of oh , that's still going to be spring , yeah .

Alicea 5:32

I'm looking up on Touring Plans to see how busy this day was at Epcot .

Nathan 5:39

Great , oh , and this is the past . So we also just lost Test Track because it was still getting worked on . Yes , yes , yes , wonderful Okay .

Alicea 5:52

Touring Plants has Epcot at a seven . Oh joy .

Nathan 5:57

Yes , Epcot is at a seven . Is this Flower and Garden ?

Alicea 6:02

I believe so yeah .

Nathan 6:04

Okay , I'm going to override some of our . I'm gonna . . . I won't override , I will augment some character dining with . Just we'll lay in the simple fact that we're gonna hit some food booths

Alicea 6:14

okay , just so we don't get too hungry . I guess

Nathan 6:19

exactly , we're hangry yeah , I , if we're knocking off Frozen Guardians , ratatouille and Test Track . There's still a lot of stuff , true , but we're also going to need to find some things to spend some time with , and what no better thing to do than go drinking around the world ?

Alicea 6:40

in Epcot Got it .

Nathan 6:42

Okay .

Alicea 6:43

All right , Okay . So yeah , Epcot , it's a busy day because it's spring a busy day ?

Nathan 6:50

yeah , all right , so we're gonna do . How do we want to do this ? Uh , we have to . Well , man , how are we gonna do this ?

Nathan 7:01

I guess we have to do character dining . We got to do breakfast , right , and then we got to do some rides . Find something for lunch . Some more rides . It's going to be a short day .

Nathan 7:14

I think it'll be a later lunch , okay , yeah , like a late brunch . Some rides we're not rope dropping , okay , we went hard the night before , maybe not in a park , knowing us .

Alicea 7:28

Okay , okay , okay , all right , and I have the average wait times for that specific day for all of these rides . Okay , got it . So when are we getting to the park ? Nine o'clock , oh , epcot is a later park anyway .

Nathan 7:41

Yeah , I'd say 10 . Okay , I'd say 10 . And let's just assume , since we got to start off , we got to do food , we're doing character dining , we're doing Garden Grill .

Alicea 7:53

Yes for breakfast

Nathan 7:54

For breakfast .

Alicea 7:55

Yeah , yeah , yeah ,

Nathan 7:56

I mean we would probably do Garden Grill for breakfast anyway .

Alicea 8:01

Yeah

Nathan 8:02

Like , love that breakfast , love all those characters there . This is the rotating restaurant there in the Land Pavilion , and we have had such amazing memories and experiences with characters . Yeah , yeah , and that's actually . I think we've said that's one of our favorite , if not our favorite , character dining before .

Alicea 8:28

They have changed it , though I went with . Who did I go with ? I think I must have went with the kids , or something .

Nathan 8:36

Perhaps I was there , who knows ?

Alicea 8:38

No , I don't think you were . I think it was when we were down there for the holidays and you stayed at home with your folks .

Nathan 8:45

Oh yes .

Alicea 8:46

Or stayed at the rental with your folks , yeah , yeah , yeah . And I think the kids and I went and I snagged garden grill reservations for breakfast and I was very excited about that because we had had great interactions there . They changed the breakfast a little bit

Nathan 9:02

Okay

Alicea 9:03

And the character interactions weren't what we were used to . Now it was like Christmas Eve , I think ?

Nathan 9:11

The holidays . . . yeah , yeah .

Alicea 9:12

Yeah , it wasn't crazy busy though , but it was yeah .

Nathan 9:17

Yeah .

Alicea 9:18

I know why the kids wanted to get on Guardians . That's what it was . Yeah , and they wanted to get on Guardians . That's what it was .

Nathan 9:23

Yeah , and they wanted to get out of there . Yes , and go get on the ride .

Alicea 9:27

Yeah , yeah Well maybe I don't know , but it still wasn't what we remembered . Now , stuff changes and sometimes there's down days , so hopefully this was just down day . Yes , we are going to enjoy this garden grill breakfast immensely , because it is going to be amazing , oh heck yeah , it'll be like as fantastic as always .

Nathan 9:46

Yeah , and we will figure we're going to be there for an hour solid

Alicea 9:52

Mm-hmm .

Nathan 9:52

Yeah , yup , yup , yup .

Nathan 9:54

Okay okay . So 10 o'clock breakfast reservations . 10 o'clock breakfast . We're out

Planning Our Morning at Garden Grill

Nathan 10:00

around 11 .

Alicea 10:00

Around 11 . Okay .

Nathan 10:02

All right , I picked food . Alicea , it's your go . What are we doing first here ?

Alicea 10:09

We've got a couple things right there , true , and since we just had breakfast at Garden Grill , we have to go on Living with the Land .

Nathan 10:19

Well , I mean , that seems very logical .

Alicea 10:21

It's right there .

Nathan 10:23

Yeah , it's just the natural order of things , yeah .

Alicea 10:25

I mean we kind of looked around while we were eating , because that goes around living with or rotates through living with the land and we have to make sure the land's doing okay .

Nathan 10:34

Right Quality control .

Alicea 10:36

Yes , yeah .

Nathan 10:37

A different perspective . You know , instead of overlooking , we're down in . Yeah , get it , I get it .

Nathan 10:42

Okay , so Living with the Land was a 22 minute average wait .

Alicea 10:45

Yeah

Nathan 10:46

That's like a what 12 , 15 minute boat ride something

Alicea 10:50

Yeah , something like that

Nathan 10:52

All right , let's call this . . . carry the one . . . I don't know . Call it 45 minutes ish to be done . Probably Probably have to hit a restroom break in there somewhere .

Nathan 11:05

Not during the ride , by the way , just so everybody is clear .

Alicea 11:09

Yeah , we're not like those couple people that have just yeeted themselves out of the boat because they're . . .

Nathan 11:18

idgits .

Alicea 11:19

Yes , I was going to say a little bit stronger word than that , but I stopped myself .

Nathan 11:24

Thank you for not making me making me beep something .

Alicea 11:29

Okay , so Living with the Land we get on it at around . What'd you say 11 ?

Nathan 11:33

Yeah , 11 , say we're done at 1145 with the with the wait .

Alicea 11:39

Okay

Nathan 11:41

Yeah , yeah , okay , all right .

Nathan 11:45

So that leaves . . . I'm up next right . I mean we're there , we're in the building , let's go hit Soarin .

Alicea 11:56

All right, Soarin Around the World is a 46-minute wait .

Nathan 12:04

Okay , so that's , we'll call that even math 12 : 30 on the ride . Yeah , okay , give it an hour . We'll just we're keeping math around here .

Alicea 12:16

Yeah

Nathan 12:17

So we're done at 12 : 45 with Soarin . That's a long wait .

Alicea 12:21

That is a long wait .

Nathan 12:26

Of all the things that haven't been crossed off the list that is the longest wait that we will have today .

Alicea 12:30

Yeah , Soarin is popular . It's a fun ride .

Nathan 12:34

[singing] Popular

Alicea 12:36

Yep Exactly .

Nathan 12:38

I watched that on the plane to and from Vegas .

Alicea 12:41

It's a good movie .

Nathan 12:42

It's such a good movie .

Alicea 12:43

Alright , so 12:45 , we're done with Soarin .

Nathan 12:49

I have a suggestion . I'm sending you mental waves oh okay .

Alicea 12:53

Well , I was just going to make this easy and continue right around there and do figment

Nathan 12:59

oh , we have a disconnect .

Nathan 13:00

Got it okay .

Alicea 13:03

Which way were you going ?

Nathan 13:04

nope , it's fine figment , it is

Alicea 13:06

that's a short one

Nathan 13:08

it is a short one , it's also weird a fever dream , uh-huh , desperately in need of a revamp yes , okay , so it'll take probably five minutes to walk over there .

Nathan 13:23

Yeah , ten minutes , I mean we're probably going to stop and grab a drink on the way .

Alicea 13:27

Okay .

Nathan 13:28

Well , yeah , there'll be a food booth or two .

Alicea 13:30

Yeah , there's a couple things over there . I was going to say after figment was probably when we'd do something , okay .

Nathan 13:38

That's fair . Oh yeah yeah , okay , I got it , let's fair . Oh yeah , yeah , okay , I got it , let's go . We'll do Figment . So on that day that was a 15-minute wait , we'll call it a half hour for round math . Okay , so 1.15 . I already know what we're going to go do right after Figment and that is not on your list . But I'm calling an audible here . Okay , and leveraging our Disney Visa card not sponsored and we're going to hit the character photo spot for Disney Visa folks . That is right there in the Imagination Pavilion , nice .

Alicea 14:14

Yeah , right next to it , yeah .

Nathan 14:16

That usually has a little bit of a line .

Alicea 14:19

Sometimes it really depends . Since it's Flower and Garden garden festival . It might have a little more of a line called a half hour total yeah , uh , no , that goes pretty quickly .

Nathan 14:32

Okay , I'd say 15 okay ,

Exploring Attractions and Afternoon Plans

Nathan 14:35

all right , so that gets us to 130 . Yeah , what's next ?

Alicea 14:39

are you counting your picture thing oh ?

Nathan 14:41

yeah , absolutely .

Alicea 14:42

Well , I'm trying to figure out if I want to go into Showcase yet or if I want to move over to Spaceship Earth . Towards the front , I think I'm going to move over towards Spaceship Earth .

Nathan 14:56

Okay .

Nathan 15:02

Are you going to Spaceship , earth , or are you just going in that direction .

Alicea 15:04

No , I'm going to Spaceship Earth .

Nathan 15:05

Oh , you're going to make us double back . It's okay , mm-hmm . Okay , fair enough , all right , so we're doing Spaceship Earth , yep , spaceship Earth , spaceship . Wow yeah , spaceship Earth . 27-minute wait , plus the ride .

Alicea 15:27

Uh , 27 minute wait plus the ride , we'll call this . So half hour is 45 total plus walk over . Yeah , okay , so that's 215 , 215 .

Nathan 15:31

oh , right , in the heat of the day , right in the heat of the day , since we have started in that direction and I'm getting thirsty , we need margaritas .

Alicea 15:43

Okay .

Nathan 15:47

And so we're going to the Grand Fiesta Tour starring the three caballeros . Okay , 12 minute wait . Plus the ride , plus a marg Call it a half hour , what do you think ? Plus the walkover oh , call it 45 minutes . We are not fast walkers when we are in a park on a hot day 45 minutes , yeah , so three o'clock . Yeah , I'm assuming that we may have stopped and grabbed a snack somewhere along the way at some point , possibly .

Alicea 16:17

We'll see .

Nathan 16:19

I mean , there's all sorts of food booths around you never know . This is , I think , where I'm going with . That is just to say this is a two main meal day and there will be random grazing along the way .

Alicea 16:32

Yes .

Nathan 16:33

Yeah .

Alicea 16:34

All right .

Nathan 16:34

That's off to you , your turn . So we're in Mexico .

Alicea 16:37

Okay .

Nathan 16:40

We've got some margs going .

Alicea 16:41

Yeah .

Nathan 16:44

Please don't double back let's just keep going .

Alicea 16:45

Oh , there's a bunch that we've missed , but okay , um

Nathan 16:49

oh , there are some things that we've missed , so help me , god , we , if you select what I think you're going to select I am taking the other one

Alicea 17:00

I'm I'm not going to well , I don't know because . Okay , we could double back to mission space

Nathan 17:08

yeah it's not too far ,

Alicea 17:11

but we just had margaritas .

Nathan 17:12

True

Alicea 17:14

it won't bother me

Nathan 17:16

look , I'm doing green .

Nathan 17:17

If we're doing mission space , you go on with your bad self and do orange . No , thank you .

Alicea 17:24

There's nothing else over there because Test Track is closed and it's three o'clock .

Nathan 17:30

Yes .

Alicea 17:31

But we need to hit it .

Nathan 17:32

Okay .

Alicea 17:33

So I'm doubling back and do Mission Space .

Alicea 17:35

I'll do orange . You don't have to do orange .

Nathan 17:37

Okay , good , I'll wait for you .

Alicea 17:39

You can do green .

Nathan 17:40

Okay , I'll wait for you . There's usually a food booth over there somewhere . I'll get a beer while I'm sitting and waiting . I only had a 10-minute wait . You were 18 .

Alicea 17:48

I had an 18-minute wait yeah .

Alicea 17:53

So Mexico back over to Mission Space , is what Like ? Another 10-minute walk , 15-minute ?

Nathan 17:58

walk , yeah , maybe .

Alicea 17:59

And the ride's probably like what Five , five minutes . It's been so long since we've been on Mission Space ,

Nathan 18:07

I wonder why

Alicea 18:09

you don't want to go on it . That's why ,

Nathan 18:11

correct .

Nathan 18:12

Okay , okay .

Alicea 18:15

So let's see , so that's what Like 345 , 350? .

Nathan 18:21

Yeah , yeah , okay , 345 .

Alicea 18:22

350 ? Yeah , yeah , okay 345 .

Nathan 18:24

Keep the math easy , okay , all right , so now it's back to me .

Alicea 18:30

Don't forget about the attractions too .

Nathan 18:33

I know , I know , but like we're in the wrong , like we had a thing going . We were going to go backwards around the world and then you decided to cross back over through the front of the park .

Alicea 18:48

This is kinda what we do .

Nathan 18:49

Canada far and wide impressions de France , reflections of China's kind of back there . Turtle Talk with Crush is by the seas , with Finding Nemo and friends which you just walked away from .

Nathan 19:02

What are we doing here ?

Alicea 19:02

No , we had already gone past it .

Nathan 19:05

But we were at least over there . I mean , the seas is next to the land . We need to talk about strategy .

Alicea 19:13

Point of fact . Yeah , we never go in a straight line when we are at a park .

Nathan 19:17

Well , especially at Epcot , because you're usually drinking around the world , it's hard to walk in a straight line .

Alicea 19:22

No we go . We have the best of intentions and it never ends up that way , so this is just more realistic .

Nathan 19:29

Okay , that's fair .

Alicea 19:33

We're Mission Space , are we going straight through and going across to the other side and doing seas , or are we going into Showcase

Nathan 19:44

I mean , it's been six hours at this point since our last full meal .

Alicea 19:48

Uh-huh .

Nathan 19:49

Are we doing late brunch and early dinner ? We can , okay .

Alicea 19:54

Lunch at Akershus is until 4.40 .

Nathan 19:59

Hmm .

Alicea 20:02

And then dinner starts at 5.25

Nathan 20:03

all right , so it's still early . Plus you have food booths and we've been snacking , I'm sure . Oh my gosh , this is so difficult . I hate to do this . I think , oh man , I am torn . Do we walk back across ? I think , oh man , I am torn . Do we walk back across , double back , say hi to Walt along the way , see what's going on in the new middle of Epcot there , and then go do the seas with Nemo and friends ? Or do we just start meandering around World Showcase and seeing what's what over there ?

Alicea 20:44

This is literally what I just said .

Nathan 20:46

I know .

Alicea 20:47

You're just talking through it again . Yeah , Okay okay , okay , your choice , I will go along , since I messed it all up , yeah .

Nathan 20:56

We are not on the same page today .

Alicea 20:58

Nope , you totally switched directions from what I was thinking too . So nice

Nathan 21:05

Alright , let's just do it . We're walking back through . We're going to the seas with Nemo and friends .

Alicea 21:11

Okay , yep Mission space to the seas .

Nathan 21:14

Yeah , because exercise .

Alicea 21:16

It's not that far .

Nathan 21:17

It's not that close either . Alright , so it's going to be a 15 minute walk . It's a 30 minute wait . It's a 10 minute ride . No , it's less than that Seven minute ride . Uh , I will be parched . Probably . Stop and have us grab something to drink along the way . Call this an hour .

Alicea 21:40

Okay , so done at 445 .

Nathan 21:42

Done at 445 .

Alicea 21:44

And we're down there . We're going to go do Turtle Talk with Crush .

Nathan 21:48

Totally fine with me . I'm down with that .

Alicea 21:50

So that's probably another half hour .

Nathan 21:53

Yeah , I think so .

Alicea 21:54

So that's 5.15 . Yeah , we're done with talking with dude .

Nathan 21:58

We're done talking with dude . Now . We're definitely not close to the Akershus Royal Banquet Hall . I'm going to be getting a little bit hungry . We're going to grab some potato soup in . Canada at the booth and then go watch Canada Far and Wide .

Alicea 22:21

Okay , we could do that . Alright , I agree with that , that potato soup .

Nathan 22:32

So good , between a snack and the 15-minute show , we'll call that a half hour , so we're at 545 .

Alicea 22:41

Well , I'm just going to keep going around that way .

Nathan 22:45

Excellent .

Alicea 22:46

Thank you and we'll do Impressions de France , de France , de France .

Nathan 22:53

Have we seen that ?

Alicea 22:56

No , I don't think we have , but there's also a Beauty and the Beast thing over there too .

Nathan 23:02

I think it flops back and forth . Oh , maybe it does , Like it does one showing of one and then one of the other . Yeah , yeah yeah , well , we haven't seen either yes , so we'll go do whatever is in , whatever is there and it's about an 18 minute show for the impressions show . Right guessing that's around what beauty and the beast is too right , you're probably gonna get a wine or a you know slushy or something like that rosé slushy . There you go .

Character Dining at Akershus

Alicea 23:30

I'm thinking of you since we just got the potato soup , I will not get the liquid cheese in a bread bowl we are working towards dinner I know I understood , but I'm not . That's why I said I'm not gonna get it okay , okay , I'll have to save it for another trip , I guess there you go .

Nathan 23:51

So that gets us to what say 6 , 15 yeah , that sounds good .

Alicea 23:57

Is it dinner time ?

Nathan 23:58

I think it is dinner time . Okay at this point we only got one soup yes , we only got one soup , of course , so it's time for it's time for dinner

Alicea 24:07

and it was much , much better than the last time we had the soup , which was ridiculously salty

Nathan 24:13

yes , of course , because they've learned to keep the cap on the salt bottle .

Nathan 24:16

Yeah , yes all right so we're going to yeah , we're gonna go head over to norway , okay , and we're gonna do our dinner at akershus royal banquet hall , which is , uh , we're going to join Disney princesses for storybook dining inside a medieval castle with soaring archways and cathedral ceilings .

Alicea 24:42

Yes , we have never done this . Is this a buffet ? I think this is a buffet .

Nathan 24:47

I don't remember .

Alicea 24:49

We haven't been there before , I'm just so . Pricing for akashus is 69 per adult , which is ages 10 and up , and 46 per child , which is ages three through nine , and character dining with princesses over in norway and epcot . We have not done this before , but I think this is just looking at the menu . I'm fairly certain it's a buffet .

Nathan 25:14

Got it .

Alicea 25:14

It does have Norwegian influences for food , so there's a lot of words here that I cannot pronounce .

Nathan 25:23

You don't want the kjotkakker .

Alicea 25:25

Whoa excuse you .

Nathan 25:27

Hey , it's Norwegian meatballs .

Alicea 25:29

Okay , yeah , I'll have meatballs . Okay great Meatballs mashed potatoes , salmon , cabbage ew carrots and green beans , chicken with apple and fennel preserves , that sounds really good . That does sound good .

Nathan 25:45

Mac and cheese yes , the Norwegian classic mac and cheese . Mac and cheese yeah .

Alicea 25:51

And they have plant-based dining too , as well as allergy-friendly offerings .

Nathan 25:58

They have an assortment of Norwegian-inspired desserts they do . I don't know what that means .

Alicea 26:04

They don't say what they are .

Nathan 26:06

It's an assortment . Okay , if you have to ask .

Alicea 26:09

I'm sure at some point we will hit this as a character breakfast .

Nathan 26:13

Is it character dining all day ?

Alicea 26:15

Yes , it is all day . Okay , I don't know why I said breakfast . That's usually the meals that we get are character breakfast . True , sorry .

Nathan 26:23

It's okay , I forgive you .

Alicea 26:24

At some point we will hit this character meal . I think we should . Anyway , it'd be nice to hit all the character meals . Yeah , because we like the character meals . We do indeed . All right , character dining usually takes a little bit longer , true though this is a buffet , so it's going to be at least an hour .

Nathan 26:43

Yeah , for them to do the full loop and for you to see everybody , yeah yeah , so we're looking at 7 50 . Do you want to say 7 30 ? Yeah , we'll say done at 7 30 , so at an hour and 15 minutes , including your commute , and we just happen to magically have the right reservation time for whatever we wandered up over there . Of course , yeah , I mean , we're professionals here we know what we're doing . We're sure , okay , what are we doing next ?

Alicea 27:13

um , I think we've hit all rides we have we just need to do reflections of China it

Nathan 27:20

would be nice to reflect on China

Alicea 27:22

um . Where is Norway uh ?

Nathan 27:25

Northern europe

Alicea 27:27

that's not helping me ,

Nathan 27:27

it's not near it's . It's not near , uh , China at all gosh , I cannot remember I am pulling up the map right now . Oh , China's right next door . Norway is next to Mexico .

Alicea 27:41

Oh my gosh , I had this totally the wrong spot

Nathan 27:43

I had in my brain . Norway is where Germany is , for some weird reason ditto .

Alicea 27:49

Okay , so you might hate me , but you might not hate me , because I know we just had dinner , but we are going over to italy

Nathan 27:58

okay

Alicea 27:58

because it's time for a limoncello margarita

Nathan 28:01

yeah , it is .

Nathan 28:03

It is always time for a limoncello margarita . It could be 8 am , it would be time for a limoncello margarita . It could be 8 am , it would be time for a limoncello margarita . Unfortunately , the park doesn't open that early

Alicea 28:13

no , um , I didn't check to see what time luminous was at

Nathan 28:18

10 o'clock .

Alicea 28:19

Oh , it's at 10 o'clock , okay ,

Nathan 28:20

it's pretty much always at 10 .

Alicea 28:21

Yeah , all right . So dinner at Akershus done at 7 30 . We're gonna go over over to Italy for a limoncello margarita and probably just chill there for a bit .

Nathan 28:30

Probably . I would nominate that we position ourselves to watch Luminous from Japan at the gate . That is one of my favorite places to watch an Epcot show from .

Alicea 28:43

Okay , are we going to hit Reflections of China ?

Nathan 28:46

Yes , Because we have to go past China to go back towards Italy . So let's amend our plan here and say we do Akershus , then we hit reflections of China 15 minutes and then we get to Italy . So that's 7.45 . After Reflections of China we get over to Italy . We're done there at 8.45 or so .

Alicea 29:14

Okay , so 8.45 done .

Nathan 29:17

Yeah , we have an hour , 15 to kill .

Alicea 29:20

We're right next door to the American Adventure and it's always nice to take a look in there and see what exhibits yeah what exhibits that they have available that little gallery space .

Nathan 29:30

Yeah , I'm down with that . That is a great way to kill . We probably need to kill , we'll say 45 minutes , and that gets us over to the Japan gate at 9 , 30 to . You know , stake out a halfway decent spot to watch luminous at 10 . I think we've nailed this .

Alicea 29:51

I am checking one little thing here because ,

Nathan 29:55

oh , you're going to get facts involved here .

Alicea 29:57

Yes , because this is during the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival . and they happen to have the Garden Rocks concert series .

Nathan 30:09

Oh ,

Alicea 30:09

let's see , we said April 15th .

Nathan 30:12

Yes , ma'am

Alicea 30:12

Okay , nobody's there , never mind .

Nathan 30:14

Never mind , never minding Yep , nobody's there .

Alicea 30:20

That was a good show that night it was . It was so that just means it wasn't crazy .

Nathan 30:24

Crazy , crazy . The band was Nobody's there . It was opened by manny moore . It's great , great music

Alicea 30:35

It's because we were going over towards the american adventure and the garden rocks . Um yeah , the , the pavilion is right there so I was like oh , how crazy is it going to be ? It's not going to be crazy . We are going going to enjoy the run of the place day there in the America Adventure Pavilion .

Evening Plans and Alicia's Surgery Update

Nathan 31:12

But alas , they're not going to be there that late , nope , so missed them , missed them , I think that's it . Yeah , yeah , we're done with the American Adventure . Yeah , I'll just leave that At 9.30 , then we park and enjoy the fireworks at 10 . The park day is closed . Our day is done . Alicea , we did it , we did it . Congratulations .

Alicea 31:41

We're not tired at all .

Nathan 31:43

No .

Alicea 31:45

Our feet are not hurting , our knees are not hurting . We're good , no .

Nathan 31:47

We've done a very efficient tour of Epcot . We haven't doubled back at all , we haven't walked side to side . It's been pretty much flawless on our behalf in terms of execution .

Alicea 31:59

Which is our typical park day anyway , Of course flawless .

Nathan 32:02

I mean , that's our typical day . Yeah , that's just how we live life Flawless , flawless . If there's one word that people think of when they think of us , it's crazy . I mean , it's flawless .

Alicea 32:15

Mm-hmm .

Nathan 32:16

Yeah , anyhow , that was fun . Yeah , I like these yeah .

Alicea 32:24

Epcot's down .

Nathan 32:25

Yay , epcot's down , epcot's done .

Alicea 32:29

Done , it's done .

Nathan 32:30

Yay .

Alicea 32:31

Sorry , now I want to go to Epcot .

Nathan 32:37

We will do that again sometime soon , and by soon I mean in June , yeah , which is in a while . We have some things to get through before now , and then we have some cruises , and we will talk about this ever so briefly here . Alicea's broken , and as we sit here , or actually as this comes out , in a week or so , Alicea is going in for some major surgery . Alicea has to have some open heart surgery . She has some plumbing in her aorta that needs to get fixed . They're going to put a fresh new garden hose in there , a little bit of duct tape . Be all good , we will be with you . We will have a bunch of episodes . Well , we do have a bunch of episodes that we have prerecorded and will be great . We will be on socials here and there , as we're able . I'll share some updates , but Alicea is going to be off work for a few months . It looks like yeah .

Alicea 33:41

For recovery .

Nathan 33:42

Yep Home taking care of her for the month of September . So you may see us online more , you may not . We have all sorts of things that we need to do We intend to rewatch the West Wing . We intend to probably finally pick up the Villains series that we started what nine months ago ?

Nathan 34:08

That we need to watch a whole bunch of Disney Vill villains movies . So we can finish that little competition off .

Alicea 34:14

They're just Disney movies . They're not Disney villain movies .

Nathan 34:17

Yep Anyhow . So yeah , Positive vibes . Happy thoughts , pixie dust all appreciated for Alicea and her road to recovery . We'll keep you all posted , for sure . With that , please do remember we are not affiliated with Disney or any of their subsidiaries . These are personal opinions and suggestions based on our own experiences . We recommend working with a travel agent or contacting Disney directly to plan your perfect vacation .

Alicea 34:53

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Nathan 35:02

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Alicea 35:10

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Nathan 35:15

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Alicea 35:21

Thank you for listening . We will be in your ears next week . Thank you for flying Star Tours , bye-bye .