Mykhailo Nahirniak: 0:23

So today, on Miles from Main Street, I got to go to Disney World. I had a lot of fun on my Disney World trip and I have tons to tell you. But first my buddy, Bryan.

Bryan Lewis: 0:38

Yeah, awesome. I'm so glad that you got to go and you know, I was actually looking through some of our episodes and you were. You were there in September of last year.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 0:48

Mm-hmm.

Bryan Lewis: 0:49

Doing the same thing and you came back with some tips for the party and the Halloween party, so I'm excited to hear about that and you know we're gonna be able to hear more about things you've been doing on your trip. I mean, it's been awesome with you having this annual pass. You're there more than you should be in my eyes, but or maybe you should just be there all the time. But anyway, we'd love to have you leave us a review and share it with a friend. It would be great to have you help us grow this show. So go on out to your podcast provider of choice and leave a review, if they have that option, and for sure, tell a friend about the show and let them know that you're having such a great time listening.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:35

Of course, and so I'm just gonna get started on my ramble of my trip, because I'm sure I'm just gonna talk a lot and throw a lot of information at you. But just to do an overview of what this trip was, is it started out? So, giving you an insight into Brian and I's life? We I don't know if we've mentioned that, I think we mentioned this on the podcast before but we are going together in early, early December to Disney World.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 2:07

Kristen and I had decided that we wanted to take a Christmas trip this year because we did Halloween last year, and so we booked a trip for Christmas and we booked a whole bunch of fun parties to be able to go to, and we were gonna be missing food and wine. And we were seeing all of these fun food and wine things that you, that they were announcing, and decided that we were gonna try to take a quick trip out to Disney to go see food and wine. So it started out as like, oh, we could leave on Friday and be home on Sunday. And then we were like, oh well, flights look better if you leave on Thursday and get back on Monday, so we could do that. So it had already kind of turned into more of a trip than we expected already right away. But we were happy about it because, I mean, we were gonna go to Disney and we're gonna try to make it kind of like a cheap, quick trip.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 3:13

We were not staying on property, we were staying at a motel and it wasn't the worst motel, but it also wasn't like the all stars, like it was definitely like a motel, like it was pretty cheap and it was also like under construction currently.

Bryan Lewis: 3:33

But it was. So was this? Was this like a hotel like we had in Marceline, or was it better than that?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 3:43

Honestly, I honestly I think it was like that, but I think it was a little worse than the one that we had in Marceline. Oh, wow, okay, yeah, all right.

Bryan Lewis: 3:53

Now, do you care to share the name of this hotel, or are we avoiding?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 3:59

that it was a Best Western or no Motel 6 in Kissimmee, I'm not sure exactly which one, but it's like right outside Disney property, like it's right there, like it was like a six-minute drive to Magic Kingdom.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 4:14

So proximity wise it was great and it was also very, very cheap, which is what we wanted.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 4:19

It was interesting because, I mean, this is not I'm not gonna do a full hotel review, but it was interesting because obviously things were under construction and we were in a room that was, like recently renovated, so like all of the stuff that was in the room actually very nice, like the countertops, like the sink, the shower, like the craftsmanship wasn't very good, because you could already see that like some things were falling apart, but like what was in the hotel room like was actually pretty decent, like was just recently renovated, but like the bones of the structure were not good, like you could, you could definitely tell that like those buildings were built way back in the day, so like the building themselves hadn't been renovated. It was really just kind of like what was inside was renovated, so it was like it wasn't bad, but it also was kind of like not that great but it was doable, like 100%, like if you just need a bed and you want to want to make it super cheap, like 100% doable. We didn't.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 5:33

We didn't see roaches until the very last day, which is in my book exactly it's a definite win, and Kristen was not happy, but that's all I'll say about the hotel. It was an off-property hotel. It wasn't on on property but proximity wise was pretty much perfect, like exactly what we needed, anyways. So yeah, we were there from. We were there I'll get to that later how long we were there for but we got there on a Thursday and our first day was actually a party day.

Bryan Lewis: 6:16

And I remember. So, yeah, I remember talking to you on the phone at one point, and I think we mentioned this before you went, but, like you guys are Heminghan over it, you couldn't decide if you were going to go. And Kristin's like, yeah, well, if we go, that's the party night that Ron will be at, and you're like. I'm booking it now. Yes, so that that was part of this trip.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 6:38

Yes, we were definitely there and Ron was was a large part of that first day, which actually made it a lot of fun. But yeah, we, we actually also made a park reservation because we knew that, like, getting into the park on that party day, on like that right side where everybody walks in, for the party was going to be a madhouse. So we actually just like walked right in and we were like, oh, look at us, yeah, this is so great, but then you can't. You can't like just join the herd after you're in. You have to like loop all the way back around and go to like Tomorrowland to get your, your bag and your wristband and everything. So, like you don't. It felt different because the last time we did the party, we like followed that whole herd and like we walked in like within that like little area and we did do that backstage exactly yeah, but yeah, we didn't do that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 7:41

I mean it's. I mean I'm not mad, I'm not like upset that we, that we didn't do that, but it was definitely not what we thought. Like we thought we were going to be able to just get in and then like join, like join up into the party, but they make you like go all the way to like some, some station, to like check in.

Bryan Lewis: 8:01

So now that's that's because when you were first going in the gate before you would go under the train station, they'd be giving you your wristband, but you guys circumvented that and went around it. So then and this is a tip for anyone that might be in the park during the day and as and is staying for the party, whether it's Halloween or Christmas you would then head to Tomorrowland if you're already in the park, and that's where you would get your wristband and and goodies at that point right yeah, there's, there's, there were the couple, I think there was also one in like Frontierland, like like a little station that you can go to.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 8:40

But yeah, you, you, you don't kind of like follow that whole herd of people and I mean we did it on purpose because we wanted to. We, our initial plan was to get to the parks, I think a little earlier than we did, but I mean we were there in time to like walk in, but like there was already like huge lines for the party. So we were like, oh, we have a like a park reservation, we can just walk in as normal people. So we did that. We got into the park like right away and we were able to like start taking pictures and everything. So it was nice.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 9:20

But yeah, we went and we checked in, we got our wristbands, which are they're different now. They're like the cloth wristbands that I think you get at like festivals and stuff like that, which are pretty cool, but they, after a while, they start to hurt a little bit. I know like the side of my wrist started, although I did like wear it for like 10 days, but yeah, the side of my wrist kind of hurt because it's got like a little plastic thing on it, but yeah, we. So Brian mentioned that we had lots of tips for people Doing doing the party from last year from like us trying to like do everything in the party. We had a great time like we had so much fun.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 10:03

We knew what we wanted to get done. We knew that we weren't gonna be able to just go out and do everything and we were very happy with how we did it. So I think that's honestly Like that's the way to do these parties is just understand you're not gonna be able to do everything, have your priorities and if you get to do other things like rides or like, we weren't even really interested in like meet and greets, all that much, but we walked by the Jack and Sally meet and greet and it said like I think it said like 25 minutes and it was almost like a walk on like we just kind of like walked in line and we didn't wait there for very like Maybe it was like 15 minutes and that was like one of the highlights of the of the trip Was meeting Jack and Sally and doing so when I got to stop you there, because when did you meet during the night?

Bryan Lewis: 10:56

When did you meet Jack and Sally?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 10:58

It was To think about that. It was later in the night, definitely later in the night, but it wasn't like Right before the final Show of the night. It was kind of like I think it was right after. It was right after the last parade, which would have been Maybe it was like 1130 because the last parade's at 1115.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 11:24

Yeah, yeah, yeah so I think it was right after the last parade and then we we walked down Main Street and past that and so all that. The line was very short. So yeah, it was, it was.

Bryan Lewis: 11:34

It was towards the end of the night and I think that's a good tip too is because when you are wanting to meet certain characters, it might be a benefit to get in the line Later at night. But also it's a caveat there too, because they might close those lines down Early. So you know, you might be going to Jack and Sally and thinking I'm gonna get in this line, but they closed at 1130 and it's 1135 and you can't get in line anymore, and I'm sure that has something to do with the length of the line. So if it was only like a 15 minute deal for you guys, maybe the line wasn't long enough to close it yet and you were able to get in that line. So you know it's just something to think about as you're planning your day. You're your party, how you're gonna do things that you you want to be mindful of what time you're getting in that line.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 12:25

Yeah for sure. But yeah, that was like just one of the things that Like we weren't 100% playing, planning on doing, and then we ended up doing it. So we had fun with that. We were able to I mean, I have to talk about this we were able to find Ron. He's not hard to find, you really, just kind of like he's only at like a couple different spots and you'll probably find him at that spot, like he hadn't even I don't even think he had gone live yet and we saw him over by the piano players. So we chilled there for a little while.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 12:57

He he went live. We were watching the piano player with him. We walked up to him towards the end of the piano player and Chatted with him for a little bit. Brandon was there. Brandon was wearing his kimono and he was wearing a pirate's hat, so Ron was saying that he was comfy but ready to plunder, which was pretty funny, and so that was, that was cool. We were able to just like chill by Ron, oh yeah. And then we In the airport because I had said on one of his streams that like, oh, we'll bring, we'll bring you some cheese, and Kristen and I were like racking our brains as to like how we might be able to like actually bring him real cheese. But we didn't want to like bring him warm nasty cheese and so we decided to. At one of the Airport gift shops we got him like a little Wisconsin cheese magnet, so we gave him that.

Bryan Lewis: 13:53

We gave him a little present and just as a reset, and maybe we've already maybe already said it so I can cut it later, but just as a reset, this is Ron on the go from YouTube.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 14:05

Correct. Yes, ron, on the go he does a bunch of live streams and stuff like that and he I think he's been live streaming almost every single Halloween party, which is nuts. But yeah, he just just so happened to be going to this Halloween party with Brandon, who has been on his stream before and Was hilarious. Brandon is a an ex Army, marines, navy, whatever, whatever. Ron was in buddy of his and he was on one of his streams and just he was hilarious. I we told him that too. When we met him, I like shook his hand. It was like we're big fans, we watched the stream that you were on and we we couldn't stop laughing and he was. It's funny, ron, and I'll probably say this several times on this podcast but Ron is Ron all the time. Like it's so cool to See him just kind of like hanging out and acting exactly the same as he usually acts, but brand Brandon was different. You could definitely tell that like when the camera was on him, he was kind of like playing to the camera, but then like we would talk and like he's from Minnesota. So that was that was cool to talk to him about. But it's just so funny how Ron is Ron all the time.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 15:32

So, yeah, we met up with them like probably like right when the party started, and that's that's one thing when you get there. So we, we were there before, before the actual Party started, and something that we really wanted to do was have snacks and and we really wanted to try all the snacks and so we, we were there early and we noticed that they didn't start serving like the party specific snacks until later, like when the the party actually started. So it's kind of difficult With that, because we were like, oh, we'll get there early and we'll Start snacking on stuff. So we actually Um wrote a couple rides, we rode pirates, and then I think we we rode big thunder and then, by that point, like the party had started, so we were able to, we were able to start, like, having snacks and so that's the only reason to go right is for snacks that I mean it's different for everybody, like, like, like we had talked about.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 16:47

I mean, like some people are really into Like meeting characters and that was one thing that, other than the one time we met characters, that's something that we just didn't do and If, like, that's what you want to do, that's really popular. So, like you have to go from like like character spot to character spot basically the entire night. So we we kind of decided that like we weren't gonna try to do that and we prioritized Having the snacks pretty early on and everything we had was actually very good. We had, I think we had the entire dinner at at Pekos build and that was really good. They had some like wing, some piggy wings there and some other stuff. That was just really good. It was like real food.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 17:40

But then we also we were able to have like a couple snacks here and there, other stuff that we had. And then we kind of Right, when like the parade starts, like then it's just kind of like back to back, like these are the different things that you're going to, and so we, we missed the first parade, but then after that we kind of like we were able to find a decent spot for the fireworks, and the fireworks are really cool and one thing about the fireworks is there's a Jack Skellington Kind of like in the front of the castle and it's like it's not an animatronic, but it's like one of those like puppets, and it's a really large puppet.

Bryan Lewis: 18:22

It's like 10 to 12 feet tall. Yeah, yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 18:25

So it's really cool to see. So not only are there a lot of really cool projections and different projections on the castle, but there's that Jack Skellington puppet guy that you can see on there. So I would suggest Trying to find a decent vantage point for that. We I mean we didn't have too much trouble, but I do feel like we waited around a decent amount for that. But yeah, it was really nice to be able to be pretty close and kind of see all of the projections and everything that was happening. That part was really cool.

Bryan Lewis: 19:10

So you didn't do the first parade. You went to the fireworks instead after the parade was done and then I'm assuming you did the second parade.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 19:20

Correct. Yeah, and we had seen online that this was another thing that we kind of waited around for, because Power Line Max dances in the street, and so we were on Main Street and we wanted to see Power Line Max dancing on Main Street and we thought we were in a pretty decent spot to see the dance up close, but we were right in the middle. So they dance at the end of Main Street once and then they dance kind of in the middle of Main Street and we were kind of like in the middle of those two points, so like we saw everything that was happening, but it wasn't like right in front of us. But that was still cool to be able to see Power Line Max and see them all dancing and everything that's fun.

Bryan Lewis: 20:16

I'm like that addition that they've made. So where would you tell them to stand?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 20:23

I think it's like right in front of the glass blower. I think that's kind of where they'll end up stopping, kind of like more in the middle of Main Street-ish. So by Crystal Arts.

Bryan Lewis: 20:37

Yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 20:38

Yeah, I think that's a decent spot. We were kind of more towards the back of Main Street Kind of towards the end.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 20:52

Okay, but yeah, the parade was great. I mean, the parade is always awesome. I love the Boutie you song. It's always great, but yeah, and then after that we went and met Jack and Sally and then we caught the last show of the Hocus Pocus show, which is, I mean, it's pretty much the same show as last year, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, but it's always fun. It's always fun to see that, yeah, and then we actually I don't even think I mentioned that, I mentioned this we ended up renting a car this time.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 21:36

So at the end of the, at the end of our park days, we had to actually walk back to our car and like get on the tram and everything. But as we were walking out, we decided to take a picture and we're sitting there. We had seen Ron on the go again. At one point he was on Main Street and we were like, hey, what's up Ron? And so we're sitting here and taking this picture and I feel somebody get up behind us and without even looking, I go, is Ron behind us? And I turn around and it's Ron and he is photo bombing our photos. So we've got a couple of pictures with Ron behind us, just photo bombing us, and then Brandon, just kind of like meandering around behind us in the photo, so it's it's so funny.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 22:31

And then that was like the last thing we did and we ended up actually walking out with Ron. We saw Ron at the at the front of the park and we were we were all going to like the same parking structure or like the same parking lot. So we ended up taking a monorail with Ron and then getting on a tram with Ron and it was really cool just just to be able to kind of like talk to him and talk about all the things that he does and I mean, again, he is the same dude, he's the same dude on the stream and just like chilling in real life, which is which I think is really cool. But yeah, that was. That was a lot of fun being able to see him and kind of ending our day that way.

Bryan Lewis: 23:18

So the one thing I wanted to point out is that my wife and I were stuck here suffering kind of hearing little things, hearing little things here and there about their trip and and seeing snaps come in. And the nice thing also was that we're since we're now friends on the my Disney experience app I was able to go in there and see all your pictures. So I was like, oh look, they saw Ron on their way out with with their pictures and oh look, there's Brandon. You know like we were able to kind of keep up with the trip that way too. So anytime you did any of the PhotoPass pictures, they were there. So you know, that's a great tip, I think if you have friends that are going and you don't get to go, maybe link up with their with their account, be friends, so that you can see their pictures.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 24:11

That's very true, Brian. I hope you understand that that's going to go both ways now.

Bryan Lewis: 24:18

Well, yeah, it is, except that now we're into this thing where we're just kind of crashing each other's vacation.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 24:27

Yeah, we're jumping on each other's vacations anyway, so we're going to be there, yeah. So the rest of the trip we were focusing a lot on EBCOT. We had a couple of days in EBCOT focusing on food and wine. I won't go over everything we had, but we had the. I mean, one of the real reasons we actually went on this trip was we saw the Pickle milkshake and we were like that, we want to try that.

Bryan Lewis: 24:58

And I can't confirm, and that's like absolutely crazy to me, that you had booked a trip to drink a Pickle milkshake.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 25:05

A Pickle milkshake, but can confirm Pickle milkshake is pretty good. It tastes like. It tastes like a. What's the Irish milkshake that McDonald's does? A Shamrock shake A Shamrock shake. It kind of tasted like a Shamrock shake, but with like dill aftertaste. That's kind of. That's what it tasted like, and I like dill.

Bryan Lewis: 25:27

That just sounds completely weird to me.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 25:30

I like dill, so like I was totally cool with it. Kristen liked it too, so you got two thumbs up from us. I also, in that same sitting I tried the unnecessarily spicy wings, which Kristen tried too. Can confirm they are unnecessarily spicy Probably the spiciest thing I've had on Disney property and they weren't like totally kill ya spicy Like. They were like just spicy enough to be like oh, I is a spicy, but not so spicy where you're like I can't do anything for an hour. So they were pretty good and we stopped at a bunch of other booths. We were planning two days in EBCOT, so we were able to go to a whole bunch of booths and we had decided not to do any dining reservations on this trip for that reason, because we knew that we were going to be eating at a lot of booths for this trip. So yeah, ebcot was great. We rode Guardians a whole bunch.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 26:38

The one thing I'll say about Guardians is now people are starting to say things in the queue kind of the same way people say things at like Rock and Roller Coaster and stuff like that, and it's if you've seen the queue you probably know where it is. But it's the part where they say does anybody know what they call themselves? And like that Terry I think his name is Terry he waits a beat and then like jumps into like the rest of his lines and so people have been like shouting things, like I think I've heard people say broke, which I said quietly at one of these the times that we went on Guardians, which was pretty funny. And then I've heard other people say like day drinkers and stuff like that, which people actually yelled when we were in there at 1.2. But my favorite that I said that I got a pretty decent chuckle out of people was Swifties Does anybody know what?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 27:43

they call themselves Swifties.

Bryan Lewis: 27:46

Because Taylor Swift now rules the world.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 27:49

Exactly yes.

Bryan Lewis: 27:50

Yes.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 27:51

I'm surprised they haven't just just turned over all the songs from Guardians to Taylor Swift songs.

Bryan Lewis: 27:58

That's what the rethaming Rock and Roller Coaster 2 is.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 28:01

Yeah, exactly, honestly, though, right, they would probably make it killing.

Bryan Lewis: 28:07

It would be so smart.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 28:08

Yes, but yeah, we were able to ride Guardians and that was great. We rode a couple of other rides. I think we rode living with the land like four or five times while we were there. Wow, but yeah, we had a lot of fun at EBCOT.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 28:24

And then we went to one of the days we went to Hollywood Studios just for the morning, and it was right around that time that we were like, okay, it's actually kind of busy here and we like, for some reason, we just really felt the crowds. And it was after that day that we were kind of like, maybe we buy Genie Plus for our last day, which kind of worked out. Oh no, it was. We had another Magic Kingdom day and that day was just bonkers, like we didn't have Genie Plus and the crowds were very large, which we were not expecting.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 29:12

But yeah, then after that day we were like maybe we actually get Genie Plus for the next day, and the next day we were doing Hollywood Studios and then EBCOT again that night, and so it worked out really well, mainly because we did a lot of fiddle faddling with some of the some of the lightning lanes that we got, so like, at one point we actually I don't even think we had gotten a lightning lane yet. We were just fiddle faddling to see if a lightning lane came up for Remmies and all of a sudden, like I think we were on our way to EBCOT and we got like a 220 Remmies, like just like all of a sudden, just like popped out of nowhere and then we had gotten a lightning lane for Frozen, so it's like, and we utilized it really well in Hollywood Studios.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 30:10

So it worked out real good for us when we used Genie Plus for that day. We were very happy that we bought it and we used it. We did end up going to the Moana water attraction thing which, like I didn't see anything online for it, so I didn't like fully understand, not that I didn't fully understand what it was, but like didn't know what was all in there. And so basically what it is is it's like a walk through themed attraction with like a whole bunch of water features. The first couple of water features are like decent and then kind of like as you get into the area it's very like educational. So like not every water feature is like a big winner. So like the first couple, I was like okay. And then the summer after that I was like this is, yeah, kids probably really like this.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 31:12

And once we got to like the ocean area, though, like that area is like worth it within itself because you can like make waves happen, like giant waves hitting rocks and stuff like that, and there are all of like all of these other really cool water features that you can interact with. So I definitely thought that like I think it's cool and I think it's worth it. I don't know, I feel like I mean it's not, like it's not gonna be drawing. Like that itself I don't think it's gonna be drawing people, but that as like a whole, like what everything else that they kind of have planned for that area and for EBCOT, I feel like is gonna be very cool. But yeah, it was a fun walk through and like there were certain things that like I found very cool and very enjoyable. But yeah, I don't think it's necessarily a one and done, but it definitely could be.

Bryan Lewis: 32:16

So so I mean that sounds pretty cool that you got to do that and they've got some of these cool things. I've seen videos of it and it looks really neat how you get to play with the water, like they had talked about. But I've heard there's no line right now, like during previews there was a virtual queue and they haven't had to have that yet. So what was your experience getting into it?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 32:43

There was a little bit of a line the first time we went through, which was during the day, but it was fast moving, so it wasn't even a 15 minute line, like maybe it was like a 10 minute, just slowly walking through a line, and then you kind of got up to the front and they were like, okay, go for it. So there was definitely a line the first time we went through, but then the second time we went through we just kind of walked up to it and just walked in. So it just depends on, like when you hit it really.

Bryan Lewis: 33:18

Okay all right? I mean it seems like it's cool enough that you need to go check it out, but it's not one of those e-ticket attractions, right? It's maybe a DRC, but still something cool to do and have some time for.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 33:35

Yeah, definitely, and I think I mean this is a bigger discussion. But I think, like US parks in general could utilize stuff like that more, because I know that like the European Park, euro Disney or Disneyland Paris, they have a lot of those like walkthrough type attractions because like the European audience likes that, like they like that type of attraction. So I think Disney is getting pretty decent at it because this Moana one is pretty good. So I just wonder like how much more of that they may like incorporate into the parks.

Bryan Lewis: 34:20

And I know they use some of this technology in Pandora, but it doesn't work anymore and that worries me. Like are we gonna end up having this walkthrough thing that it was like oh yeah, you used to make music over there with that water?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 34:36

And there's this splash water at me over there.

Bryan Lewis: 34:38

Like you know, that kind of worries me and I hope they keep it up and it doesn't fall to something less.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 34:47

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is interesting. That's a very good point. But yeah, I mean I enjoyed it, I liked it, I thought it was cool, but it's definitely not something that's gonna like make people show up. So on our Magic Kingdom day we ended up, I mean.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 35:12

So we got there and it was pretty busy and we had this plan already that hey, like we're gonna leave the parks and do a quick monorail loop and then come back to the park and Kristen really wanted to get some the Christmas chip and dale ears, and so we ended up taking a boat over to the wilderness and we felt really good about this because the parks were busy. So it was like in the middle of the day it's like the thing that people always say like, oh, in the middle of the day, go back to your hotel and take a nap. But we didn't take a nap, we just meandered around a bunch of other Disney resorts, but we ended up taking a boat over to the wilderness lodge, which that's not where the ears were. That's what we thought the ears were actually at the campgrounds.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 36:09

And so we were over at the lodge. We didn't find them there, and then Kristen dug into it a little bit more and found out that the ears are actually at the campgrounds and they have buses actually from the wilderness lodge to the campgrounds. So we took one of those and we went out there and this was the first time I had ever been out to the campgrounds at Disney and it's like its own thing. It's like it's actually very cool. I see why, Brian, you enjoy them so much.

Bryan Lewis: 36:43

Oh, it's amazing, it's such a great campground.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 36:46

It's really just kind of like its own, like little Disney world. It's so different than like really anywhere else that you can go on property, which I thought was very cool and I had never experienced this place before. But we ended up. It's so massive that we ended up having to take another bus out to the gift shop that we wanted to go to, Right it's 750 acres.

Bryan Lewis: 37:15

I think it's huge. Yeah, so you, a lot of people there, will rent golf carts, like you guys could have rented a golf cart for half a day or something if you wanted to, but yeah, you'll see your golf carts everywhere. We had rented a golf cart and I think I covered this in the past, but it's just such a different vibe being there than anywhere else. It's really laid back and there's so much to do and I'm sure you barely saw any of it while you were there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 37:49

Yeah, it was basically just kind of like that. We went several places and I was just kind of like, what was that? What was that? And it was basically just kind of like that gift shop and then like the front of the campgrounds. But, yeah, we found the ears that Kristen wanted, we found a bunch of other stuff that Kristen wanted, and yeah, and then After that we finally made our way out to the monorail loop and right around this time it was kind of like lunch and we were like, well, why don't we go get Ohana noodles at the Tambu Lounge? Come to find out that the Tambu Lounge does not serve food until four o'clock and it was like two o'clock.

Bryan Lewis: 38:38

Yeah, now I do have to ask do you recall if Ohana was serving dinner yet?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 38:44

No, we weren't yet.

Bryan Lewis: 38:46

Yeah, so I'm thinking that's why, because if Ohana's not serving the food, tambu Lounge doesn't have it, so okay, but yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 38:57

So we got there, they weren't serving food, but we were at that bar already. So we were like, oh, why don't we just get a few drinks? And so we had one round of drinks and then I ordered another drink that we kind of shared a little bit, and then we proceeded to go to the gift shop, buzzed because we hadn't eaten anything yet and by all of the Polynesian stuff, and the whole time we were like we need to stay here. This place is so great. We're just like super buzzed. Then we ended up eating at Captain Cook's because we needed to eat something, we needed to put something in our bellies, and it was just great to be able to just kind of like chill.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 39:41

I remember I usually have one of these moments each trip where I'm just kind of like sitting around and I'm like this place is awesome and it was. I mean, maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the Polynesian, maybe it was the food, but yeah, that was definitely my moment on this trip was like hanging at the Polynesian, like we had been in a park that morning. And then we went to the contemporary. We hung out at the contemporary, we went to the Polynesian. We were hanging out there and I was just like, yeah, this is, this is cool, I very much enjoy this. And then after that we went to the Grand Floridian and did some shopping there. Of course, kristen always has to go to Basin, because they have a basin there. And then we took some more pictures. They have picture spots at the Grand Floridian.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 40:36

And we got some pretty cool pictures. They have some pictures with a poison apple that we were able to get. That was pretty fun, and Cinderella's Glass.

Bryan Lewis: 40:47

Slipper.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 40:48

Yeah.

Bryan Lewis: 40:49

Yeah, that was cool.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 40:50

I needed to do that again because the last time we took those pictures I had a hat on and when I took my hat off like I had like a cowlick or something, so I needed better pictures. But yeah, then we made our way back to the park at that point and kind of finished our day out of the Magic Kingdom.

Bryan Lewis: 41:12

And what's really cool and I don't know if you were able to do this or knew this or whatever but they recently just restarted the boat that goes between contemporary, fort Wilderness and the Wilderness Lodge and we used that a ton when we were staying at the park or when we were staying at Fort Wilderness. We used that boat a lot and it's really convenient to get around. So you know, like connect you were talking about getting back to the Monterey Loop Like that really does a great job of connecting you to the Monterey Loop. It's something that we've been talking about as, like, one of our meal options when we go in February is maybe we just do a progressive meal around the Monterey Loop, but one of the things we could do is take that boat from contemporary over to Wilderness Lodge, have a bite there, come back, get back on the Monterey Loop, right? So it's a great option that they have there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 42:13

Yeah, I think that's what we took to get to the Wilderness. It's like a smaller boat, right.

Bryan Lewis: 42:21

Yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 42:22

Yeah, so yeah, that's what we took to get there and it was fun. We don't really take boat transportation all that much when we're in Disney, so it was nice to do that.

Bryan Lewis: 42:35

One of the things I'm looking forward to doing and you know my wife has looked at me a few times as if I'm nuts because I'll say, like I'm just going to go over to you know, like when we were staying at contemporary, I'm like I'm just going to take a walk over to Magic Kingdom Gates. Well, why would you want to do that? Because I can Like.

Bryan Lewis: 42:54

I might not be going in, but just to be able to do something like that, just because I can. And one of the things that I want to do when we stay at the Polynesian is jump on the boat from the TTC. I've never been on that ferry boat and so I would love to do it, and I'm just going to, like middle of the afternoon, head out on the boat over to the gate and then come back.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 43:22

Yeah, and it's funny you mentioned that because we took that ferry boat over in the morning and I think I mean you can say like maybe it's faster than the monorail. Honestly I think it was a little slower than the monorail but there's definitely shorter lines. So we stood for a while on that ferry boat and we actually I took that ferry boat once when I was younger, with my brother and sister, I think at some points in the night they just kind of like tell you like no, you have to take the ferry boat because monorail is doing its thing, or like maybe the monorail was closed, I don't know. But yeah, we took it and I mean maybe it was faster than the monorail, but we definitely stood in way less of a line.

Bryan Lewis: 44:22

Nice. Yeah, Whenever we've gone through the TTC like when we had done the monorail to from Epcot, I think it was, and we had gone through the TTC we've always either taken a bus over to Magic Kingdom or the monorail. I've never gone on the boat, so yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 44:44

So, watercraft.

Bryan Lewis: 44:48

I love being out on Bay Lake and Seven Seas Lagoon, so it's definitely something I'm going to do. So you had your park days and Monday was time to head home.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 45:04

Yeah, and this is this is something to keep in mind with MCO and the airport in Orlando is when it's busy it's busy.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 45:18

Now, we there were. There was no reason for us to think that it may be busy other than the fact that it was a Monday. Typically Mondays are a little busier at airports than other days. But it wasn't a holiday, there wasn't anything else going on, it was just a normal week and we got to the airport. We got to the airport an hour and a half before our flight, so like not the full two hours. But we ended up missing our flight because TSA took probably around probably around two hours to kind of get us out, that's nuts.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 46:01

It was insane. When we got there, the line stretched down all the way to the food court and just kept going. I think at one point it went all the way down and started to wrap back around. It was craziness. And then at one point I'm pretty sure they were like oh, like we're not moving people through fast enough and so they end up converting everything to TSA precheck. So it's like, basically, basically all that meant was we didn't have to take our shoes off, like really everything else was the same, but they took a while to set it all up because a dog sniffed you on your way through and we had people behind us freaking out about the dog, like oh, where's the dog gonna bite us? Like no, but it took them a while to like set all that stuff up and we were standing there forever. Had they not set that up and just sent us through as normal, we may have made our flight. We missed our flight by like ten minutes, but we so.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 47:03

Then we were there very early and we went and talked to Frontier, which was another line that took probably another like 45 minutes, and I was like all ready to like have an argument with these people. Be like no, I'm not paying. Because somebody in line was like yeah, they're gonna charge you a hundred bucks to like change your flight. And I was like no way are we doing that because TSA was insane today and like all of these other people missed their flights because of TSA like what are they gonna do? Charge us all a hundred bucks. So I was like ready to have an argument and we got to the front and the lady was awesome. The lady was just like, yeah, we have no clue why it's craziness right now. And so like they didn't even understand why it was so busy. So they just booked us on a flight the next day, which wasn't until like 445 or something like that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 47:59

And luckily thank you, mom and dad my parents were in Florida that that week doing using some of their time share points, so we were able to just go to their hotel and hang out for those two days. So we had we literally had like two extra Disney days. We ended up going to Animal Kingdom and then I'm, we, we, brian we may have to turn this into it's an own episode, but I did end up going to Rainforest Cafe. But we do not have enough time on this episode for me to talk about everything I need to talk about about Rainforest Cafe, but I went and it was sure, I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 48:44

It's all good that you have to say about it exactly, but yeah, so so that that was fun, just to be able to be like and it's like again annual pass, like oh shucks, we missed our flight, what are we gonna?

Bryan Lewis: 48:59

do now? And it was. What are we going to do now?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 49:02

and it wasn't like we just like found a hotel and just like sat there and we were like, oh, shoot, like we were actually able to like go do stuff like we. We got ourselves to Animal Kingdom. We were able to hang out in Animal Kingdom and then the next day we actually bought we didn't buy it that, our parents bought them but they got tickets to EPCOT and so we were able to go have that morning in EPCOT with my parents and that was that was probably one of the most fun days that we had, because I was there with my parents and we were hanging out and it's fun because we were able to like show them all of these fun things that we do.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 49:41

Kristen was so excited to ride Guardians with them. She was like super and we got a boarding group. It was. It was a pretty early boarding group too. I was worried that they were going to die because of what it's. It's an intense roller coaster, but I don't think they were ready either, because when we got done with the roller coaster, my dad was just like frozen and I was like he's dead.

Bryan Lewis: 50:09

But no, he, he loved it.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 50:14

My mom said that her tummy was a little upset from it, which understandable because Guardians. But yeah, it was a lot of fun being able to hang out with them and do all that and your dad posted the picture.

Bryan Lewis: 50:27

The ride picture from. Guardians and I was dying. It's just hilarious yes, it's awesome, you guys are behind them going like yay, there's like gripping on, you know white knuckle going, yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 50:42

So we, we had a lot of fun with them. We also rode frozen because of course they needed, they needed to ride frozen. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. And then we left early, obviously, to go make our flight. We made our flight and we, we made it home and now we're going again in a month yeah, tsa at the airport in Orlando is just insane.

Bryan Lewis: 51:13

They always have been. The last time that I flew through there, I remember the sniffing dog and like the line worked tight, like it's not, like there's room in front of us. We're all tight up against each other trying to move through that line as fast as we can and it's not moving, not moving. And here's the guy walking, the dog going. Guys got to keep moving, got to keep moving. You can't do his job if you don't moving. And it's like dude, we can't. Where are we supposed to go? You know, like and other stories I was hearing. I think the next year was that and this is all October timeline, but there people were taking their full bags of candy from the Halloween party yeah, for this through security and they're like oh, we're gonna have to test each one of these.

Bryan Lewis: 52:03

You know, that's like dude, you've got 300 pieces of candy in each bag. You're gonna test each one. You know, and that's partly on the the passenger too, like you don't need to carry on all of your candy.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 52:19

So you know, like I just always am, like you know, you definitely need to have the time don't be mckaylo and get screwed the sad part is is we is, we were being responsible, like we've shown up to flights with way less time and made the flight, but we were. We were there an hour and a half, which we found, we found out, which was not quite enough time. So definitely two hours if you know that it's gonna be a busy time at MCO yeah, and you know they, they've always.

Bryan Lewis: 53:03

I think everybody knows. Now, when you're flying, you're supposed to be there two hours early, like MCO. You might want to be even earlier, yeah because.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 53:12

However, however, kristen did see a sign that said don't enter the queue unless your flight is within two hours. So I think some people maybe, maybe clogging up that line. Oh, maybe that could be.

Bryan Lewis: 53:29

Yeah, it's interesting, I've never seen that so.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 53:34

Kristen took a picture of it it exists.

Bryan Lewis: 53:40

Yeah, what I mean? That's a great trip. You guys had awesome time. It sounds like a couple of bonus days in there, which you know, like you said, annual pass. How can that be bad?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 53:51

yeah.

Bryan Lewis: 53:53

I love it. I think if that happened to me and I just finished up with a trip, I might actually go to Disney and like beg them for to just like, can you just add on a date in my ticket so that I can go into the park, so that I don't have to pay full price?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 54:10

but yeah, I wouldn't do it.

Bryan Lewis: 54:12

Yeah, but yeah, I, you know I look forward to further conversations with you because I always find, as we do these trip reports, that you know we can hit all the highlights and we talk about a lot of things and given as many tips as we can, but it's kind of, as we keep talking about it and as we have other topics that we talk about, like you remember something that you don't not thinking of tonight, that is a good tip for someone to have right like. So I look real forward to continuing on with your conversations about your trip and how that will apply to other things.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 54:50

So yeah, me too. I mean, there was, there was a lot to this trip. I didn't even tell you that we ate at topolino stairs dang.

Bryan Lewis: 55:00

Yeah, we got to talk about that too.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 55:02

Yeah, but sure that's definitely another, another podcast so definitely, you know.

Bryan Lewis: 55:08

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Mykhailo Nahirniak: 55:42

We'll see you next time on miles from Main Street.