Hello!

And welcome to very amusing, your one-stop shop for the story, secrets, and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled

theme park journalist. I'm Carly Waisal, and I have been shenaniganing. I went to Disneyland

for two days for the Tiana's opening and holiday stuff, which we were going to talk about in this

episode. I also went to Long Beach. I went to the aquarium. I had dinner at my friend's house. We all did a 3 p.m. dinner, which I gotta tell you.

It's real nice to go to a two-hour dinner with your friends, come home and be like, wow, I have

all night to do my chores and cook my food for the week. Fantastic. We had so much fun.

My friend Marissa made us lasagna. She made her pops pop pop-pop. I think she doesn't pop-pop. Her pop-pop sauce from scratch. It was delightful.

She also told me everywhere to go in Long Beach. I went to an antique store. I bought a really cool,

goofy, retro gift for myself. I don't know why I called it a gift. If I buy myself things,

I'm just buying them. It's not a gift, but it really felt like a gift. It felt like a gift. Um, the antique mall that she sent me to, by the way,

they have a donation bin and you put in 50 cents and you get free popcorn. There's a popcorn

machine. You just eat popcorn, walk around an antique mall. Are you kidding me? It was so nice to be in

Long Beach, which, um, for those who aren't familiar, including me, since I wasn't sure how far away was. It's like an hour 15, an hour 30 away from Los Angeles.

So I felt like I was out of town for the day. I went to a bakery. I went to a juice store. I got

or shot a cold brew. Like it was a really, really nice day out. I had a family day and then I had a

friend day all in one. And it was wonderful. It's just been a really nice weekend full of friends and things, and it doesn't always come together that way,

and it was just nice to be on and about. And I will be back at Disneyland one more time

before you hear this episode, because I can't stop going to Disneyland. I just can't stop,

and I can't wait to check in on some of the holidays stuff I'm going to talk about that I haven't

seen in a few days, which is a really weird sentence to say. I understand. So I'm just, I'm just going to turn it over to

all the Disneyland chitchat, but I hope you are also feeling the winter vibes as much as I am.

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