Hello and welcome to very amusing, here one stop shop for the story, secrets, and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist.

I'm Carly Wiesel, and as you can tell, as you can probably tell, this is not the Dollywood episode, I promised you. Oh, no, no, no. If you follow me on social media, you already sort of kind to know what happened. I was fully booked to go to Dollywood. I was supposed to spend four nights there. I had a cabin. We had plans. We had a schedule. We had really difficult to get

dinner reservations. And Delta Airlines just simply would not get us past the threshold. It was

wild. I will tell you about it later in this episode. But what's so funny is that I call this

casually, I call it our chaotic girls trip, our annual

girls trip.

And the chaos is following me home as though my life has been lived through the haunted

mansion.

The chaos just keeps coming because today I was like, okay, I have all day, I'm going to record

the episode in the morning.

Only we have a huge plumbing issue and And so now a plumber is coming

back to like stick a camera through the showerhead. I got all like dressed up this morning. I was like, oh, I'm going to record my podcast. I'm going to feel like an adult lady. Pearl had an accident on my brand new jeans. And now I'm just wearing slop. Slop is my Hanson t-shirt from when I was a child that was down to my knees and is now an actual fitted t-shirt, which by the way,

I almost saw them in Epcot and I didn't, and we will get into it in this episode. But what I want you to know before I tell you about my non-Dollywood Week and not Dollywood, is that if you feel like you want, you know, maybe you live with a partner, maybe you live with your family,

maybe you're like, I really need to carve out some time to get some time for myself.

I recommend, gathering a few friends together, calling it an annual trip after the first one,

and then you're basically socially greenlit to keep going and doing dumb things every year.

My friends and I went to Galveston, Texas.

We went to Denver, Colorado last year. If you are listening to the podcast regularly, you know

that's when we went to Casa Bonita. We went to the Rainforest Cafe with the river ride inside.

And by basically being like, yeah, it's our annual trip. We're now baked in to do something silly,

stupid every year. And my family can't be like, no, we need your help doing all of the many things in the house. Uh-uh. I was away two weeks ago, but I'm sorry it was our annual trip. And that is a hack that I highly recommend in your life. Now, I don't want to make it sound like I'm not allowed to go out of town. I go out of town every two weeks. I'm just saying if you want like a baked-in reason to be like, got to get the gang together.

It is. not allowed to go out of town. I go out of town every two weeks. I'm just saying if you want like a baked in reason to be like, got to get the gang together. It works perfectly. And I'm talking about this here because I don't think my husband listens to the podcast anymore. I think he used to. And now his drive, which is when he listens to stuff, is entirely conference calls because he's an executive. I get it. He's like a grown

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