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Visit them on the web at www.W. DreamsUnlimited Travellimited Travel.com. Hello and welcome to episode 40 of the DizUMPLUC connecting with Walt Podcast. I am your host and Diz Historian Michael Bowling, and I'm joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend Craig. Hello, Craig. It is good to see you, and I mean, really see you. Yeah, it's nice to see you, too. I mean, not that you're terrible on a computer, but, you know, it's always a little bit nicer being in person with someone. Yeah, our longtime listeners of connecting with Walt, you may have noticed that our opening is a little bit different today. I am in Orlando, the home of the Disney Unplug Podcast Network, and which means Craig and I are in the same room for this episode.

Very exciting.

And even though this is our second show of 2018, this is our first show Craig and I have recorded since before the holiday season began, because last week's show, as we mentioned, was pre-recorded.

Craig, did you and Kylie have a Merry Christmas and festive New Year celebration?

Yeah, I mean, well, first off, we promised that we would talk about Christmas, so we have to.

No, I was very happy with Christmas in New Year's.

So with Christmas, I got to spend it up in Pennsylvania, and we had the always elusive

white Christmas.

You know, the northeast definitely, like, right around the Great Lakes and up, they got smashed

pretty hard, and even all the way out to the west coast in and up, they got smashed pretty hard.

And even all the way out to the west coast in the north, they, everyone just got hit bad.

And luckily, my parents just live in a mountain in Pennsylvania on one of the ski resorts.

And even though we weren't supposed to have much it just one of those weird weather coincidences

where the the snow just started one day and it got socked in and then there was inches and

inches and inches and inches and it was a really really great time so but yeah lots of family lots of family, lots of friends, then back to Orlando

for the new year and just even, even more of the same. So it was a very busy holiday, but

very enjoyable. But what about you and Carol? We had a very nice Christmas. It's funny, this was

the first time in a few years. We didn't come out here for a dis event. So we were able to get all the Christmas decorations, everything up, shopping done, without like as being as stressed. But yet, Carol and I then realized we miss not being at Walt Disney World for the Christmas season.

We miss not seeing the candlelight processional. We miss not seeing the friends.

Exactly.

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