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S2.Ep1- How We Did Disney All Wrong (But Managed To Have the BEST Trip)
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Season 2 is here, feral fam — and we’re opening with a truly unhinged recap of our Disney trip with three toddlers, thirteen humans, zero plans, and exactly one working brain cell between us.
In this episode, we cover:
✨ How every single plan we made derailed before we even left the airport
✨ The saga of Anita breaking her wrist staring at the possibly-fake Northern Lights
✨ Our hotel check-in disaster, where we found out we were staying in three different apartment complexes disguised as “condos”
✨ The spiritual awakening that was the Animal Kingdom bird show (we cried… within 30 seconds of entering the park)
✨ The leash era of motherhood
✨ Red light therapy suction-cupped to our foreheads
✨ Natalie’s bathroom reno purgatory, and dabbling in MONAT??? (send help)
✨ Why Magic Kingdom is a concrete jungle fever dream
✨ The episode where we all ended the night sick: Dan green-in-the-face, Felicia dissociating in Mod Pizza, and Natalie vomiting out the window of a moving Wagoneer at 70 mph
It’s motherhood. It’s chaos. It’s crunchy. It’s Disney. It’s so US.
Welcome to Season 2. We missed you.
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Transcript
Intro
Return and Season Two Introduction
00:00:51
Felicia Devine
Hello, Natalie!
00:00:51
Natalie Richards
Hello. Sorry, I messed that up already. We have been very out of this for for a few weeks. I feel like I have no idea what's going on anymore.
00:01:01
Felicia Devine
We forget how to podcast. I know. Well, welcome to season two.
00:01:07
Natalie Richards
oh my gosh. Season two episode one.
00:01:09
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:01:09
Natalie Richards
we took a little um unplanned break.
Travel Challenges with Family
00:01:14
Natalie Richards
However...
00:01:14
Felicia Devine
Unplanned holiday break.
00:01:17
Natalie Richards
We weren't planning on starting a new season, but we kind of just said, okay, we're just taking a break for a few weeks. And we had a lot of things going on We had yes.
00:01:23
Felicia Devine
Yes, we did. And we we went to Florida together. And the intention was to podcast in Florida. And as you know, traveling with multiple toddlers and multiple families, we just did not find the time to like sit down and record.
00:01:37
Natalie Richards
Every single plan we had got derailed.
00:01:41
Felicia Devine
Oh, wait. now
00:01:42
Natalie Richards
Every single one.
00:01:43
Felicia Devine
Wait, we we had plans with this. Oh, no, we had the plan with the the want to get a drink.
00:01:52
Natalie Richards
I know we had We had
Balancing Passion and Family
00:01:54
Natalie Richards
content plans.
00:01:54
Felicia Devine
No. Oh, no.
00:01:56
Natalie Richards
We had a water tasting plan. We had recording plans.
00:02:00
Felicia Devine
Recording plans.
00:02:02
Natalie Richards
And it
00:02:04
Felicia Devine
Every single plan just derailed. Wait, I totally forgot about half of the plans we made.
00:02:10
Natalie Richards
so funny. We literally just did nothing that we were supposed to.
00:02:15
Felicia Devine
Oh, no.
00:02:16
Natalie Richards
But it doesn't matter because we had a marvelous trip. It was so cute and so fun.
00:02:19
Felicia Devine
It was so fun.
00:02:21
Natalie Richards
But oh my gosh, talk about living in the moment.
00:02:21
Felicia Devine
Ugh.
00:02:25
Felicia Devine
so Actually, yeah. And talk about not getting paid for this.
00:02:28
Natalie Richards
right
00:02:31
Natalie Richards
It's like, wait, how do how do people actually do that?
00:02:32
Felicia Devine
Tell me you don't get paid for something without telling me you don't get paid for something.
00:02:36
Natalie Richards
I don't get it.
00:02:37
Felicia Devine
um i think I think when it's front of mind because you get paid to do something, you prioritize it.
00:02:37
Natalie Richards
Like, ah yeah. Yeah.
00:02:43
Felicia Devine
But like you and i do this as a pure passion project right now.
00:02:44
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:02:47
Felicia Devine
And like our main focus is our family
Unpaid Work and Future Hopes
00:02:49
Felicia Devine
and our family enjoyment.
00:02:50
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:02:51
Felicia Devine
And so like when we were in Disney and we were on vacation together, it was like pure living in the moment.
00:02:53
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:02:55
Felicia Devine
And like ain't nobody paying me to do this yet.
00:02:56
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Enjoyment. yeah
00:02:59
Felicia Devine
so
00:03:01
Natalie Richards
i don't care.
00:03:02
Felicia Devine
If you want to subscribe, like, and save, maybe I'll start getting paid for this and can give you real time content, but, but it just hasn't happened yet.
00:03:11
Natalie Richards
ah Season
00:03:12
Felicia Devine
ah Maybe season three,
Health Challenges and Remedies
00:03:14
Natalie Richards
two.
00:03:14
Natalie Richards
yeah I don't know. Season two. No.
00:03:16
Felicia Devine
ah season two, when you want to pay us?
00:03:18
Felicia Devine
and
00:03:19
Natalie Richards
No, we just like, oh gosh, there's been so many things going on.
00:03:20
Felicia Devine
I'm fighting off a head cold. I'm sorry. I'm like clearing my throat in the microphone. Are
00:03:24
Natalie Richards
I don't know what was wrong with me the last couple days, but I was not doing well.
00:03:29
Felicia Devine
you pregnant?
00:03:30
Natalie Richards
No, no, you know it was like an actual something. i didn't feel like miserable, but like the whole lower half of me was achy and like it wasn't anything up in the upper half of my body.
00:03:35
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:03:42
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:03:46
Felicia Devine
Wasn't a chest cold, wasn't a head cold, was a pelvis cold.
00:03:49
Natalie Richards
It was literally from like my diaphragm down.
00:03:52
Felicia Devine
Weird. Weird.
00:03:53
Natalie Richards
but And I was like my GI system was not okay, but I wasn't nauseous. I couldn't eat anything.
00:03:59
Felicia Devine
weird
00:04:00
Natalie Richards
And then I just was like like diarrhea and all – like it was weird and I was so achy.
00:04:05
Felicia Devine
My sister's chiropractor said that a mini neural virus is going around where it's like very mild.
00:04:09
Natalie Richards
I think that must have been what it was. I thought I had like like a food poisoning thing and that it just made my whole body like not feel okay.
00:04:14
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:04:18
Natalie Richards
And that still is –
00:04:18
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:04:19
Natalie Richards
of the high possibility.
00:04:20
Felicia Devine
You're just like off.
00:04:21
Natalie Richards
Yeah. So it was very weird.
00:04:22
Felicia Devine
i had um I had a fever Monday night and like elevated heart rate, elevated respiratory rate, um and woke up Tuesday feeling like trash.
00:04:29
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:04:33
Felicia Devine
And then within like 30 hours, my like symptoms were pretty much gone, but I still have this like thing.
00:04:41
Natalie Richards
Lingering, just like mucusy, gross.
00:04:42
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:04:43
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:04:43
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:04:44
Natalie Richards
gross yeah
00:04:44
Felicia Devine
That's gross. And Sep has had the runniest snows.
00:04:47
Natalie Richards
Oh, no.
00:04:48
Felicia Devine
Mm.
00:04:49
Natalie Richards
It just is right now. I don't know. It is what it is.
00:04:52
Felicia Devine
But we're doing all the things. Dan has been making me my homeopathy because when I'm down and out, he makes them for me.
00:04:54
Natalie Richards
yeah Oh. Because there you go.
00:04:58
Felicia Devine
And when he's down and out, I make them for him. Because sometimes this stuff is too much effort.
00:05:03
Natalie Richards
It takes too much like brain power sometimes. If I don't have it written down what I need to do, I'm like, wait, I don't know.
00:05:05
Felicia Devine
It does. Yes.
00:05:09
Natalie Richards
I can't think.
00:05:09
Felicia Devine
Because the brain fog, my brain inflammation was so bad Tuesday.
00:05:11
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:05:14
Natalie Richards
Oof.
00:05:14
Felicia Devine
It took me like three minutes to figure out like, what do I eat for lunch? Like, how do I make Giuseppe lunch?
00:05:19
Natalie Richards
Oh, gosh.
00:05:20
Felicia Devine
was
00:05:23
Felicia Devine
and mind you, Dan, Dan makes it in advance.
00:05:24
Natalie Richards
It's so real, though. Right.
00:05:27
Felicia Devine
I just had to open the fridge.
00:05:28
Natalie Richards
I
00:05:31
Felicia Devine
I just had to be like, Oh, it's pre-made. Um, but yeah.
00:05:34
Natalie Richards
had to open it look at it for a few
Influencer Marketing Challenges
00:05:36
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's it. Should I heat it up? But I've been doing, um Red light therapy on my brain.
00:05:36
Natalie Richards
minutes, and be like, okay.
00:05:44
Natalie Richards
Yeah, Same.
00:05:45
Felicia Devine
Like just like suction cupping the red light therapy to my my head.
00:05:49
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:05:49
Felicia Devine
And just like sitting there and roasting because my brain inflammation is so bad.
00:05:52
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:05:55
Natalie Richards
Yeah. I've been using it on, we both got the Lumi box when they were sales.
00:05:59
Felicia Devine
Yes. Yes. i actually, bought, I bought bought one.
00:06:00
Natalie Richards
We're such suckers.
00:06:03
Felicia Devine
I bought four of them.
00:06:04
Natalie Richards
Oh yeah. That's right. Yeah.
00:06:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah, I bought too many. And then I went back to buy more.
00:06:11
Felicia Devine
And they were sold out. So.
00:06:13
Natalie Richards
Were they really?
00:06:13
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:06:13
Natalie Richards
Oh, so it was real.
00:06:14
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:06:15
Natalie Richards
Like they were actually – Sometimes like I feel like they say, oh, we're going to sell out.
00:06:16
Felicia Devine
Oh yeah. They actually like sell out those brands. I know.
00:06:21
Natalie Richards
You better get it now. Like, yeah, right. You're going to sell out.
00:06:24
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:06:24
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:06:25
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Or like sale ends today and then like you go on tomorrow.
00:06:28
Natalie Richards
extends for a week after.
00:06:29
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:06:30
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:06:30
Felicia Devine
No, but I feel like they actually do sell out.
00:06:31
Natalie Richards
But we both were suckers and we got a LumiBox and I have really liked it.
00:06:34
Felicia Devine
okay I love it.
00:06:36
Natalie Richards
I've used it on my thyroid. I use it almost every day.
00:06:40
Felicia Devine
I use it every day.
00:06:40
Natalie Richards
I've also getting desiccated thyroid gland.
00:06:41
Felicia Devine
I do it right here. Mm-hmm.
00:06:45
Natalie Richards
Like
00:06:46
Felicia Devine
Oh, that might be.
00:06:47
Natalie Richards
like actual, but which is essentially what nature thyroid, like the medication is, like that's all it is.
00:06:52
Felicia Devine
Yeah,
00:06:53
Natalie Richards
So I've been just like muscle testing.
00:06:54
Felicia Devine
that might be in my blend.
00:06:57
Natalie Richards
Sometimes it is.
00:06:58
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:06:59
Natalie Richards
Sometimes it's in some other stuff, but I'm taking like like a decent amount, like just thyroid.
00:07:02
Felicia Devine
Just thyroid. Yeah.
00:07:04
Natalie Richards
And I have felt better. But this is the first time with my muscle testing that I've ever felt, I've ever tested to actually start treating my thyroid, which is interesting because I've had the symptoms but it hasn't been ready to be treated, which is really interesting.
00:07:07
Felicia Devine
Good. ahead
00:07:14
Felicia Devine
well Okay. I wonder if you had to heal some other stuff before.
00:07:20
Natalie Richards
I had to heal ah tons of other stuff. So now I actually have been feeling pretty good.
00:07:22
Felicia Devine
wow Good.
00:07:25
Natalie Richards
So like the red light on the thyroid and doing that has been actually making me feel better.
00:07:28
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:07:31
Natalie Richards
I'm not as like swollen here because I had been.
00:07:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Good. Yeah.
00:07:35
Natalie Richards
so then after I do my red light, I go and look at myself in the mirror.
00:07:35
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:07:38
Natalie Richards
I'm like, oh my God, it's gone. It's so funny.
00:07:40
Felicia Devine
Wait, did I they tell you about the the um brush gua sha I got?
00:07:46
Natalie Richards
A brush gua sha. Like it has like little teeth.
00:07:48
Felicia Devine
So it's like I have it and I just can't reach it because I'm sitting so precariously inside of this like nest of podcast equipment.
00:07:51
Natalie Richards
That's okay.
00:07:55
Natalie Richards
Of wires.
00:07:57
Felicia Devine
It's two feet away from me. But it's basically a like a really dense makeup brush essentially. But it's like contoured to your face.
00:08:05
Natalie Richards
I know what you're talking about. Yes.
00:08:07
Felicia Devine
And I like it because I don't like using my Gua Sha stone in the morning because you have to use all this oil and then you're all messy and then you have to like, and then you're going to put your makeup on.
00:08:14
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Put makeup on. Yeah.
00:08:17
Felicia Devine
So I do my red light in the morning with my Gua Sha brush because you can do it on just dry skin.
00:08:21
Natalie Richards
Nice.
00:08:23
Felicia Devine
Love it. $10.
00:08:24
Natalie Richards
Love.
00:08:25
Felicia Devine
Love it
00:08:25
Natalie Richards
Love.
00:08:25
Felicia Devine
Great investment.
00:08:26
Natalie Richards
Okay. Okay. I'm going to get that. Send it to me.
00:08:28
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:08:29
Natalie Richards
We'll link it.
00:08:30
Felicia Devine
Yeah. We'll link that in the show notes.
00:08:34
Felicia Devine
Oh my goodness.
00:08:35
Natalie Richards
I can't.
00:08:36
Felicia Devine
Wait, Amazon? Amazon just like nixed me.
00:08:41
Natalie Richards
What do you mean?
00:08:41
Felicia Devine
They put a hard stop on me real quick. I came back online though. I got it back. But so basically like if you have Amazon affiliate links, you have to display them in your website, which I'm like, no one uses my website.
00:08:55
Felicia Devine
I have a website if you want to find me. I have a personal website.
00:08:59
Natalie Richards
Weird.
00:09:00
Felicia Devine
No one uses it, but you have to
00:09:01
Natalie Richards
Right. But you just have to display it there.
00:09:04
Felicia Devine
You have to just, what and I'm like, no one uses my links through my website. They all use it through Instagram, but because I'm not an Amazon influencer, Instagram doesn't count for me.
00:09:07
Natalie Richards
No.
00:09:12
Felicia Devine
So then I had to go and I had to reapply.
00:09:13
Natalie Richards
I see.
00:09:15
Felicia Devine
so all of my previous Amazon links are like dead and gone because they deleted my account. I'm so annoyed.
00:09:22
Natalie Richards
Okay. This is where i started reading that Amazon agreement and
00:09:23
Felicia Devine
This is too confusing.
Natural vs. Traditional Hair Products
00:09:26
Natalie Richards
I was like, you know what?
00:09:27
Natalie Richards
This is a lot and I'm not.
00:09:29
Felicia Devine
I'm agreeing to what? I know, but.
00:09:32
Natalie Richards
I'm like, I'm not gonna put the time and effort into that.
00:09:35
Felicia Devine
But there are only like a handful of things that I really like through Amazon. And then there's a handful of things i use Shopmy for.
00:09:38
Natalie Richards
That's the problem.
00:09:41
Felicia Devine
or not Shop. Yeah. Shopmy. No. Shop.
00:09:46
Natalie Richards
Couldn't tell ya. This is all very true foreign.
00:09:49
Felicia Devine
I didn't tell you. No, it's like ah it's like a platform that like uses a bunch of brands.
00:09:51
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:09:55
Felicia Devine
Anyway.
00:09:56
Natalie Richards
yeah
00:09:56
Felicia Devine
But I was like determined. So I reapply. It's just a lot of work.
00:10:00
Natalie Richards
Oh my god, it's ridiculous.
00:10:01
Felicia Devine
for pennies, pennies. But now I'll tell you, I'll tell you my quote unquote micro, matt what's it called when they're so much smaller than micro?
00:10:03
Natalie Richards
That's the problem. What? Oh my
00:10:13
Felicia Devine
Nano. I'm a nano influencer.
00:10:16
Natalie Richards
word.
00:10:17
Felicia Devine
I've made hundreds of dollars already. Yes. Yes.
00:10:23
Natalie Richards
my word
00:10:23
Felicia Devine
I know. So like it's it's not all for not. But like when you think of like the fact that we have real jobs and we make like very good incomes in our real jobs, hundreds of dollars an hour versus hundreds of dollars over the course of a couple months doesn't sound that appetizing.
00:10:31
Natalie Richards
Hundreds of dollars an hour.
00:10:40
Felicia Devine
But it's all.
00:10:42
Natalie Richards
i get it.
00:10:42
Felicia Devine
I mean, influencing influencing is quite literally a pyramid scheme because it's it's slow traction.
00:10:43
Natalie Richards
it's pass It's mostly passive. Yeah. Yes.
00:10:48
Felicia Devine
And then once you get traction, it like kind of grows organically.
00:10:49
Natalie Richards
Yes. yes
00:10:51
Felicia Devine
But I would say I'm up more than $1.
00:10:53
Natalie Richards
Oh my gosh. This brings me ok brings me to another another topic.
00:10:56
Felicia Devine
Okay,
00:11:00
Natalie Richards
you using for hair stuff currently?
00:11:01
Felicia Devine
okay tell me.
00:11:03
Natalie Richards
Because I let me ask you a question first
00:11:06
Felicia Devine
Okay, I'll shall answer.
00:11:07
Natalie Richards
what are you using what are you using for hair stuff currently because i hate every product that I use because every product is natural.
00:11:18
Natalie Richards
And i ah i just tolerate them truthfully. I purely tolerate them like that.
00:11:23
Felicia Devine
And you don't like them. And it's crazy because they're so expensive.
00:11:28
Natalie Richards
They're so expensive. And I just like, i don't like my, i actually found a new shampoo that I like, I like, but literally I've only used it maybe twice.
00:11:30
Felicia Devine
I'll tell you what I'm using.
00:11:39
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:11:39
Natalie Richards
um Like I like Olaplex, but that's not clean. I like living proof.
00:11:45
Felicia Devine
No. And it stinks.
00:11:47
Natalie Richards
That's not clean. That's just, it's horrible.
00:11:48
Felicia Devine
No.
00:11:49
Natalie Richards
Like there's things I know I like, but they're horrible.
00:11:50
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:11:52
Felicia Devine
You know what stinks the worst? and but And when I say stinks, I mean fragranced. That um Target Kristen S or whatever it's called, that burns the hairs out of my nostrils.
00:12:02
Natalie Richards
oh my gosh.
00:12:06
Natalie Richards
Yes. Okay. I love that dry shampoo though.
00:12:08
Felicia Devine
Singes them. I know you did say that was good.
00:12:11
Natalie Richards
ah but now I think they discontinued it.
00:12:12
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:12:13
Natalie Richards
Anyway. Okay. That is one and one that I do like.
00:12:14
Felicia Devine
All right.
00:12:17
Felicia Devine
Now, I won't tell you my source because I don't know if it's valid. I don't know where I heard this. However, I heard that if you're a curly girl, you have to have some, um wait, what what are the ingredients that are bad for your health?
00:12:33
Felicia Devine
ah Not phytates. Wait, phthalate.
00:12:34
Natalie Richards
Phthalates.
00:12:35
Felicia Devine
No. Is that in food? Sulfates.
00:12:38
Natalie Richards
soul fates That's what makes it like the sulfates are what makes it um foamy, isn't it?
00:12:41
Felicia Devine
I'm so confused. My brain is not online. Like, smooth.
00:12:47
Natalie Richards
Kind of like, isn't that what?
00:12:48
Felicia Devine
No, that's a surfactant.
00:12:49
Natalie Richards
What? No, I don't know.
00:12:52
Felicia Devine
Oh my gosh. You guys, this is not educational at this point.
00:12:52
Natalie Richards
Oh, boy.
00:12:55
Felicia Devine
This is a entry level. Okay. So we have to have some bad things for the curly girls because it basically coats the hair shaft and creates less dryness.
00:13:02
Natalie Richards
in Silicones.
00:13:05
Felicia Devine
Silicones. That's, oh my gosh. Okay.
00:13:07
Natalie Richards
Okay. Got it.
00:13:08
Felicia Devine
Which a lot of the natural products start removing all those things because they're quote unquote unhealthy for you.
00:13:09
Natalie Richards
me
00:13:13
Natalie Richards
Sure.
00:13:13
Felicia Devine
But if you're a curly girl, you need the coating of the hair shaft so that it stays moisturized and it isn't frizzy and it isn't staticky.
00:13:16
Natalie Richards
It's something to tame it down.
00:13:22
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:13:23
Felicia Devine
So when I heard that, I was like, well, that makes sense because I was using um Luna...
00:13:28
Natalie Richards
yes Under Luna.
00:13:29
Felicia Devine
Luna? Under Luna. um And I was like, my hair is so staticky, so fraying, like frizzy.
00:13:31
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:13:34
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Frizzy, like dry. Mm-hmm.
00:13:37
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And I was like, this this is a $30 bottle of 12-ounce shampoo.
00:13:42
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:13:42
Felicia Devine
And I just like didn't like it. So I use not good for you hair care.
00:13:49
Natalie Richards
And that's the kind of my question.
00:13:49
Felicia Devine
It, it's not good for you. So I use L'Oreal shampoo, the purple shampoo again, not great, but I also spend a lot of money on hair.
00:13:55
Natalie Richards
if Whatever. Uh-huh.
00:13:59
Felicia Devine
So I need it to stay the color I choose to dye it. Um, okay.
00:14:03
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:14:03
Felicia Devine
So I use a L'Oreal purple shampoo. I use that Australia company. Um, uh, what's it called? It has like a kangaroo on it. I think it's called Australia.
00:14:16
Natalie Richards
oh the purple one?
00:14:16
Felicia Devine
It's horrible. Yes. It's horrible for you. It's terrible. I tell you what, Natalie, I couldn't even tell you what it's called, but my hairstylist was like, Oh, you don't need any hair treatments.
00:14:21
Natalie Richards
What is that called? i couldn't even tell you what that's called.
00:14:29
Felicia Devine
Your hair feels so good. It is the softest it's ever been.
00:14:31
Natalie Richards
That's hilarious.
00:14:33
Felicia Devine
it is the least breakage I've ever had. And I can go multiple days without showering. or Okay.
00:14:40
Natalie Richards
Oh my God.
00:14:40
Felicia Devine
That was a lie. Multiple days without washing it.
00:14:43
Natalie Richards
Washing your hair. Okay. That is so funny.
00:14:45
Felicia Devine
So I, And then I use a L'Oreal Curly Girl Mousse and that's it.
00:14:50
Natalie Richards
Wow.
00:14:51
Felicia Devine
I know it it's really, it's like not my best self or like not my best um like clean line, but that's what I use because you know why I can't have frizzy, dry, staticky hair.
00:14:57
Natalie Richards
Right. Okay. Okay.
00:15:04
Felicia Devine
It just, that's overstimulating.
00:15:04
Natalie Richards
Uh-uh. and know. I know. I was using like – oh, yeah.
00:15:07
Felicia Devine
When your hair is staticky.
00:15:10
Natalie Richards
I was using this like organic – I don't even know what it was. Giovanni or something I think was the organic. And it was just like my ends were dry.
00:15:15
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:15:18
Natalie Richards
My roots were oily. Like it's just – and usually I can go a long time without needing to wash my hair because it's –
00:15:24
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. You usually have a good longevity to it.
00:15:27
Natalie Richards
And then I feel like my hair was thinning while I was using that.
00:15:31
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah.
00:15:32
Natalie Richards
I'm just like, something is wrong. So I don't know. so i'm I'm like really not sure what my direction is going to be.
00:15:37
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:15:40
Felicia Devine
You need more toxins in your life.
00:15:42
Natalie Richards
I guess I do. But okay. So this brings me to the next topic. This girl that – yeah.
00:15:46
Felicia Devine
Wait, I have a question when you're done.
00:15:48
Natalie Richards
This girl that I have followed for a very long time. Like she's actually – she's an influencer. Yeah.
00:15:53
Felicia Devine
Okay. Macro, micro, nano.
00:15:54
Natalie Richards
She, lit I mean, closer to, she's probably got like 40,000 followers. I don't know.
00:16:00
Felicia Devine
Okay. Macro.
00:16:01
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Right.
00:16:03
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:16:03
Natalie Richards
She literally cold DM'd me the other day with a voice note.
00:16:07
Felicia Devine
Natalie. What?
00:16:10
Natalie Richards
And I was like, this is so odd.
00:16:14
Felicia Devine
Whoa.
00:16:14
Natalie Richards
It was, it was almost like, wait, what? Like, why are you DMing?
00:16:20
Natalie Richards
And it was that it was her like it was her on the voice note like, hey, Natalie, I just came across your page.
00:16:21
Felicia Devine
Okay. Okay.
00:16:28
Natalie Richards
I don't even know. OK, but anyway, at first I was like, oh, wow, this is cool.
00:16:29
Felicia Devine
Oh, okay.
00:16:33
Natalie Richards
Like I followed her for a really long time. I've like her birth story and I've done all this stuff.
00:16:34
Felicia Devine
hu
00:16:37
Felicia Devine
Oh, cool.
00:16:38
Natalie Richards
But so she like does.
00:16:41
Natalie Richards
What's the company?
00:16:44
Felicia Devine
Natalie, why do we have such brain fog right now?
00:16:45
Natalie Richards
own mona Monet? Monet? Monet?
00:16:48
Felicia Devine
Monet, Monet, Monet.
00:16:48
Natalie Richards
man How do you say it? Is it Monet? Yeah.
00:16:51
Felicia Devine
i think so.
00:16:52
Natalie Richards
Okay. So I don't know anything about it, but apparently it's clean. Anyway, she's trying to get me to join her team. And I was like, I don't think I want to do the network marketing thing, but I may try the product.
00:17:02
Felicia Devine
Oh. Maybe get the product.
00:17:07
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:17:08
Natalie Richards
um But she like has all these these like doctors and naturopaths and stuff on her team. And i'm like is that I'm like, I don't know if that's my direction, but I will try it and then maybe it's an option.
00:17:15
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:17:19
Felicia Devine
Okay. Natalie, do it. Try the product and let us know.
00:17:23
Natalie Richards
Yeah. I will because I'm curious because I hate everything I've been using.
00:17:26
Felicia Devine
I'm open to it.
00:17:29
Natalie Richards
And the only reason why I would and even give it like a glimmer of a chance is that it can't be worse than what I'm doing now.
00:17:29
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:17:37
Felicia Devine
No, it can't be worse than the Australia brand.
00:17:39
Natalie Richards
And apparently it's clean-ish, like like clean-ish.
00:17:41
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:17:43
Natalie Richards
Like it passes all the EU standards for for like toxins and things. I don't know.
00:17:48
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:17:48
Natalie Richards
I know nothing about it truthfully at this point.
00:17:51
Felicia Devine
You know how they have like Tupperware parties?
00:17:53
Natalie Richards
that's literally This is literally a pampered chef of the new...
00:17:55
Felicia Devine
I know. No, of the hair.
00:17:56
Natalie Richards
ah
00:17:57
Felicia Devine
I've seen them. They have shampoo parties, Natalie. You go and they shampoo your hair for you at this house in like a bowl and they like style your hair.
00:18:03
Natalie Richards
i I literally cannot.
00:18:06
Felicia Devine
Are you going hold shampoo party?
00:18:06
Natalie Richards
I cannot.
00:18:09
Felicia Devine
Shampoo party at Natalie's.
00:18:10
Natalie Richards
like like i could not be further from me at all, but I'm going to try it.
00:18:15
Felicia Devine
Mark your words, episode one.
00:18:16
Natalie Richards
The product. Okay.
Renovation Adventures
00:18:18
Felicia Devine
When we tune back at episode 10 and Natalie's full on wheeling and dealing her links for this shampoo company.
00:18:21
Natalie Richards
ah god
00:18:26
Felicia Devine
We'll see. We'll see. you
00:18:28
Natalie Richards
I can't.
00:18:29
Felicia Devine
Never say never. No, but I am actually fascinated by it I know a few people that I grew up with that sell it or have sold it in the past.
00:18:40
Natalie Richards
I just, oh I thought it was, you know, gimmicky stuff. And I think it probably is, but I, it's clean.
00:18:45
Felicia Devine
But like everything's.
00:18:46
Natalie Richards
And that's the only, that's the only thing that like gets me because for hair stuff, I just don't think there's good options.
00:18:50
Felicia Devine
I know.
00:18:52
Natalie Richards
I really don't.
00:18:53
Felicia Devine
Hair and teeth just get me.
00:18:55
Natalie Richards
who
00:18:55
Felicia Devine
Everything else, skincare, body care, food, drinks, everything else, I'm fine.
00:18:57
Natalie Richards
I know. I know.
00:19:02
Felicia Devine
Clothing, hair care, skin care, hair care, teeth care.
00:19:03
Natalie Richards
I know. Like I'm really, also if anybody has recommendations, please, or if anybody's used Monet, monet whatever, please.
00:19:08
Felicia Devine
o Let us know.
00:19:14
Felicia Devine
Let us know how to pronounce it. Let us know if we should buy it.
00:19:18
Natalie Richards
And let me know if it actually works because I might be trying it.
00:19:21
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:19:22
Natalie Richards
I might be.
00:19:22
Felicia Devine
Honestly, Natalie, from what I've seen from the girls that I know that use it, it looks like it works very well. Like very well. Like they have very soft hair, very like luscious, like the before and afters of like hair growth and stuff. I've heard great things.
00:19:37
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:19:37
Natalie Richards
I think like, yeah, i typically have decent hair.
00:19:41
Felicia Devine
Oh, you have beautiful hair.
00:19:43
Natalie Richards
It's the thickest that my hairdresser has ever seen.
00:19:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:19:46
Natalie Richards
And I go, but Katie, like this is half of what it used to be.
00:19:46
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. You have gorgeous hair.
00:19:50
Natalie Richards
So it's like the the potential's there to get better.
00:19:50
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:19:53
Felicia Devine
Right. Right. So you should do before and after pictures.
00:19:54
Natalie Richards
so I'm like, okay, I will.
00:19:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:19:57
Natalie Richards
I will.
00:19:57
Felicia Devine
Let us know.
00:19:58
Natalie Richards
Interesting. Oh, so anyway, I'm
00:20:00
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:20:01
Natalie Richards
We'll discuss more.
00:20:02
Felicia Devine
This slightly segues into there's some relevance. How's your bathroom renovation?
00:20:09
Natalie Richards
Can I tell you? Okay.
00:20:11
Felicia Devine
Okay. Tell us the choices you've made because
00:20:13
Natalie Richards
here's what is here's Here's what I was under the impression of, okay?
00:20:16
Felicia Devine
tell us your choices.
00:20:20
Felicia Devine
okay.
00:20:21
Natalie Richards
We were going on our Disney disney trip. He was going to start on demo two days before we left, which he did. It was supposed to be done within two or three days upon coming back.
00:20:35
Natalie Richards
Okay. Our Disney trip was three weeks ago.
00:20:39
Natalie Richards
going on four. Okay. Our vanity just went in on Friday.
00:20:47
Felicia Devine
Where are you showering?
00:20:49
Natalie Richards
The shower was done. and So we, I did have to go to my parents a couple of times and shower there.
00:20:51
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:20:56
Felicia Devine
Which is 45 minutes away.
00:20:59
Natalie Richards
One time, which
00:20:59
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:21:01
Natalie Richards
Jean fell asleep in the car. I literally drive drive up to my parents' house, go in and shower, wash my hair, come out with wet hair and drive back home with Jean still asleep. It
00:21:11
Felicia Devine
Oh my God.
00:21:13
Natalie Richards
was so funny. So it was literally like an hour and a half just like there and back.
00:21:17
Felicia Devine
Just like a nap time ah shampoo.
00:21:17
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Pretty much.
00:21:20
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:21:21
Natalie Richards
um So yeah, our shower was kind of done for the most part for the last couple weeks, but then like floor tile, no.
00:21:26
Felicia Devine
But like, is it exposed? Are you getting mold behind it?
00:21:29
Natalie Richards
Like it's, no, it's sealed.
00:21:29
Felicia Devine
Or it's sealed?
00:21:31
Natalie Richards
It was it was tiled.
00:21:31
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:21:32
Natalie Richards
We don't have the glass door for the shower yet. that's gonna We have it. It's in the garage, but it hasn't gone in. The tile floor had to go in. here's the I think the real problem was that I wanted these medicine cabinet mirrors.
00:21:47
Natalie Richards
And I was fine with them being surface mounted.
00:21:47
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah.
00:21:51
Natalie Richards
Do you understand what I mean by that?
00:21:51
Felicia Devine
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, because we did that.
00:21:53
Natalie Richards
We're like, yeah, yes, yes, it sticks out.
00:21:54
Felicia Devine
It's on the outside of the drywall, so it sticks out. Yeah, we did that.
00:21:59
Natalie Richards
I was fine with that. Okay. Kyle and his friend made the decision that no, they need to be inset.
00:22:06
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah. Flush mount.
00:22:08
Natalie Richards
Yes. Okay. So they, that then meant that they had to cut out
00:22:13
Felicia Devine
The drywall.
00:22:14
Natalie Richards
the drywall and the studs and put a header across that whole wall because it was a load-bearing wall.
00:22:19
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:22:21
Natalie Richards
I was like, really, that didn't need to happen. But i it looks great. It looks wonderful. um I would have just had to pivot on what light lighting we were doing. I would have done like sconces instead of above the medicine cabinet lights.
00:22:30
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:22:34
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:22:35
Natalie Richards
But anyway, finally, the vanity went in and the toilet went in.
00:22:38
Felicia Devine
no.
00:22:43
Felicia Devine
How many syncs you have?
00:22:43
Natalie Richards
On Friday.
00:22:43
Felicia Devine
One?
00:22:44
Natalie Richards
ah Two.
00:22:45
Felicia Devine
Two?
00:22:45
Natalie Richards
Two sinks.
00:22:45
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:22:46
Natalie Richards
So they did have to do a lot of like plumbing redos and all kinds of stuff.
00:22:49
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:22:49
Natalie Richards
But finally, it is now like maybe I could say 90% done now.
00:22:50
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:22:56
Natalie Richards
The lights still have to be changed.
00:22:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:22:59
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:22:59
Natalie Richards
Little things. Little things have to be done. But like it's usable.
00:23:03
Felicia Devine
Do you want to hear the parallel to that?
00:23:05
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:23:08
Felicia Devine
Last summer, we were about to go to Arizona for a very long weekend.
00:23:12
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:23:14
Felicia Devine
Our contractor said, oh, we'll do your bathroom and I'll get it usable by the time you get back, which was five days.
00:23:19
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:23:19
Felicia Devine
I said, great, usable. Because we only had one bathroom, like you.
00:23:21
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:23:23
Felicia Devine
Yeah. I had a nine-week-old.
00:23:26
Natalie Richards
Mm.
00:23:27
Felicia Devine
I needed a bathroom. Okay.
00:23:28
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:23:28
Felicia Devine
And we go on this trip. Every problem that could surface, like this bathroom, a Natalie was like a seven by seven bathroom. Like we're talking, I could touch, I could touch every wall with like a pivot.
00:23:37
Natalie Richards
Yes, our bathroom is not big.
00:23:41
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:23:42
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:23:42
Felicia Devine
So we get back. It's still in demo.
00:23:47
Natalie Richards
Oh, God.
00:23:48
Felicia Devine
We had to move in with my in-laws for three weeks.
00:23:52
Natalie Richards
See, I'm just kidding.
00:23:52
Felicia Devine
I lived in-laws house for three weeks postpartum or like nine weeks postpartum that I was living at my in-laws house when I had to start back at work.
00:23:57
Natalie Richards
Like, yeah.
00:24:02
Felicia Devine
Like it was crazy town, but like every problem surfaced.
00:24:04
Natalie Richards
So not good.
00:24:06
Felicia Devine
It was supposed to be like a, um,
00:24:08
Natalie Richards
Just like a re-face.
00:24:08
Felicia Devine
you know, take the tub out, take the tile off, take the, this out, like reuse paint, redo new toilet, new vanity.
00:24:10
Natalie Richards
Uh-huh.
00:24:14
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:24:16
Felicia Devine
It turned into a disaster.
00:24:16
Natalie Richards
Yep.
00:24:18
Natalie Richards
Oh, no. Oh,
00:24:19
Felicia Devine
It was crazy.
00:24:21
Natalie Richards
I remember that.
00:24:21
Felicia Devine
So, so it's very similar, very similar parallel.
00:24:21
Natalie Richards
You had so many things going on at that point.
00:24:25
Felicia Devine
I could have told you when you were leaving for Florida, don't get your hopes up.
00:24:26
Natalie Richards
And I knew this. I knew this in in my heart.
00:24:30
Felicia Devine
I know. Yeah.
00:24:32
Natalie Richards
I knew it. But I figured I was like, you know, even if it's like, okay, let's say it takes double the amount of time.
00:24:32
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:38
Felicia Devine
Yeah, like two weeks.
00:24:38
Natalie Richards
We're still looking at two weeks. Okay, double. That's fine.
00:24:41
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:42
Natalie Richards
That's reasonable, right?
00:24:42
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:43
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:24:44
Felicia Devine
Yep. Same same problem.
00:24:47
Natalie Richards
ah Anyway, it it looks so good.
00:24:48
Felicia Devine
So, yeah.
00:24:49
Natalie Richards
I'll post pictures. it it It looks really, really good.
00:24:53
Felicia Devine
I'm excited.
00:24:53
Natalie Richards
There's a few things that have to be finished up and then I'll i'll get pictures in.
00:24:55
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:56
Natalie Richards
But I'm very happy we did it.
00:24:57
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:24:58
Natalie Richards
It cost way more than I figured it was going to cost, obviously. I mean, this this is just normal stuff. like this is But for our how small this bathroom is, the amount of money that this cost is really quite quite interesting.
00:25:05
Felicia Devine
Right. This is like, this is on par. Yeah.
00:25:13
Felicia Devine
And who's your contractor?
00:25:15
Natalie Richards
Yeah. It's one of Kyle's friends. Might have been ah the other problem, but no, he did a great job.
00:25:18
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:25:22
Felicia Devine
He won't hear this.
00:25:24
Natalie Richards
He's not listening to this.
Disney Trip Planning
00:25:27
Natalie Richards
No, it was, he has done a great job, a great job, but there's just like less pressure, you know?
00:25:28
Felicia Devine
oh my God.
00:25:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Oh, good.
00:25:34
Natalie Richards
Uh-huh.
00:25:34
Felicia Devine
Right. To like speed it along. Yeah. Threaten him a Google review.
00:25:37
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:25:41
Felicia Devine
I'll leave you one star if you don't finish this. So like you're days away from it being done.
00:25:46
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:25:46
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:25:46
Natalie Richards
Yeah. I think by this week, yeah, it'll be finished.
00:25:49
Felicia Devine
Perfect.
00:25:50
Natalie Richards
I'll come back on Monday and probably hopefully no longer than Tuesday. But again, it'll be Friday.
00:25:54
Felicia Devine
Perfect. Love it.
00:25:56
Natalie Richards
so
00:25:59
Felicia Devine
So next week.
00:26:00
Natalie Richards
ah So next week, updated pictures will be coming.
00:26:03
Felicia Devine
but I love it.
00:26:05
Natalie Richards
It's so ridiculous. Okay.
00:26:07
Felicia Devine
Um, our trip, I was just going to say, take me to Disney.
00:26:07
Natalie Richards
We need to take get into our trips a little bit. Mm-hmm.
00:26:12
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:26:12
Natalie Richards
hey
00:26:13
Felicia Devine
So
00:26:14
Natalie Richards
God, there's been so many things that have happened in the last three weeks since this trip. I have to like bring myself back.
00:26:20
Felicia Devine
I know I'm like, let me let me rack my brain on our trip to Disney.
00:26:24
Natalie Richards
Overall, i feel like it was an amazing trip.
00:26:25
Felicia Devine
Uh, Oh, Epic.
00:26:28
Natalie Richards
it was it was – lots of things didn't go as I wanted them for you guys.
00:26:35
Felicia Devine
Oh, why?
00:26:37
Natalie Richards
No, because like – let – let me –
00:26:39
Felicia Devine
um like, but wait, enlighten me. Cause I had a blast.
00:26:42
Natalie Richards
first say the trip was amazing. It was amazing.
00:26:46
Felicia Devine
Incredible.
00:26:47
Natalie Richards
Kyle came off with that trip and he goes, can every trip be like that? And I was like, oh, that's really awesome.
00:26:50
Felicia Devine
Oh yeah.
00:26:52
Natalie Richards
I would go, what about it did you like so I can recreate?
00:26:54
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:26:55
Natalie Richards
he goes, i don't really know.
00:26:56
Felicia Devine
What can we redo?
00:26:57
Natalie Richards
i don't really know, but it was just like really good.
00:26:57
Felicia Devine
Oh, like vibes were great.
00:26:59
Natalie Richards
I think it was like a good mix of doing stuff and a good mix of rest and like pool and and all of that.
00:27:04
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:07
Natalie Richards
But It was so funny because dan Danny, for some reason, your husband, was like concerned about things going into it.
00:27:19
Felicia Devine
Oh, because he didn't know. So wait, let's let's take us to 12 hours before we leave.
00:27:20
Natalie Richards
He didn't know anything. And I...
00:27:24
Felicia Devine
And Dan starts rapid fire texting Natalie. We're in bed the night before. And Dan's like, where are we staying? I'm like, I don't know. He's like, you don't know where we're staying?
00:27:35
Felicia Devine
I'm like, Natalie said she had it handled. He's like, Felicia, where are we staying? I'm like, text Natalie. So Dan starts rapid fire texting Natalie.
00:27:45
Natalie Richards
So Dan's asking me all this stuff and i'm I'm, you know, giving him all the information, which is totally fine.
00:27:47
Felicia Devine
Yeah, logistic.
00:27:50
Natalie Richards
I know we have traveled enough together where we're like, things are, are gonna, gonna get done.
00:27:50
Felicia Devine
Things i don't care about.
00:27:55
Felicia Devine
i don't care. Yeah.
00:27:57
Natalie Richards
And typically yeah that would be the case. Yeah. And I told Dan, I said, i said oh, Felicia just trusts me inherently to like know that everything's going to be fine.
00:28:03
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:28:06
Felicia Devine
Oh. I will just, I will just trust Natalie.
00:28:09
Natalie Richards
Here's where I dropped the ball is I trusted my mom for one thing.
00:28:13
Felicia Devine
Oh. ah Anita. Anita.
00:28:16
Natalie Richards
For one thing.
00:28:17
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:28:21
Felicia Devine
Which is hysterical. Continue.
00:28:24
Natalie Richards
Because – But to her defense, she usually is planning like the whole thing and she had just like one thing to do when she got there.
00:28:28
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:28:30
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:28:36
Natalie Richards
Okay. so they my parents have a time like a Hilton timeshare.
00:28:37
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:28:40
Natalie Richards
So they have points and they have like to get condos at wherever we're going.
00:28:41
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:28:44
Felicia Devine
Places.
00:28:45
Natalie Richards
So –
00:28:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:28:46
Natalie Richards
We got three condos for this trip, three separate condos.
00:28:49
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:28:50
Natalie Richards
And they were all supposed to be in the same building, like next to each other.
00:28:54
Felicia Devine
ah Yeah.
00:28:55
Natalie Richards
So we got three-bedroom condo, a two-bedroom condo, and a studio, like hotel room condo.
00:29:02
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:02
Natalie Richards
okay Okay. ah when my parents got there a day before everybody else, and she was supposed to make sure that everything was set
00:29:15
Natalie Richards
She decides she's only going to check into the one condo and not figure out where the locations are of the other two.
00:29:19
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:24
Natalie Richards
she just She just, I mean, assumed that they were going to be next to each other and didn't check into...
00:29:24
Felicia Devine
Wait.
00:29:27
Felicia Devine
Yes. Yeah.
00:29:30
Natalie Richards
I go, why did you not check into the other ones?
00:29:34
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:29:34
Natalie Richards
To just like check.
00:29:36
Felicia Devine
I also don't. Well, and also like just get the keys and stuff.
00:29:38
Natalie Richards
Get the keys so that you don't have to then go check in by...
00:29:42
Felicia Devine
Because our check-in process was hysterical.
00:29:45
Natalie Richards
It was so disorganized. I can't even – the whole thing, it was annoying me.
00:29:48
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:29:50
Natalie Richards
It was really annoying me.
00:29:51
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:51
Natalie Richards
And it was annoying me for you guys because I was like, this is ridiculous.
00:29:52
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:29:55
Natalie Richards
She also had one job to make sure that there was a pack and play in your room. That was it because you guys were coming in at 7 o'clock.
00:30:04
Felicia Devine
Late. Yep.
00:30:06
Natalie Richards
It was going to be Sep's bedtime and you needed a pack and play.
00:30:08
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:30:10
Natalie Richards
First of all, the room wasn't checked into so they couldn't even bring a pack and play to you.
00:30:12
Felicia Devine
No. Well, and they didn't, we couldn't figure out who the room was because the check-in day was not the day they had printed off.
00:30:15
Natalie Richards
Oh my god. And then they didn't.
00:30:21
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:30:22
Felicia Devine
So like the agenda or the um reservation was for like the day before.
00:30:26
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:30:26
Felicia Devine
through Tuesday and we get there the day after.
00:30:28
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:30:30
Felicia Devine
And so like their sheet of who's checking in that day doesn't have any of us on it. So I'm like, Oh, Anita. And they're like, no, Anita. And I'm like, Oh, Chabatoni. And they're like, no Chabatoni. And I'm like, Dan.
00:30:40
Felicia Devine
And they're like this Dan. And I said, that's not us. And then like, and then they're like, okay, just continue to the next person. So this was at the gate and I'm like, Oh, this is not a good start.
00:30:49
Natalie Richards
ah but so bad.
00:30:50
Felicia Devine
So then we walk into the lobby and then they're like their concierge person person, like at the door. had their sheet. And I'm like, oh, here we go again. Cause it's the same sheet. Okay.
00:31:00
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:31:00
Felicia Devine
So I, I know we're not on the list and I'm like, Anita.
00:31:02
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:31:03
Felicia Devine
And they're like, no, Anita Chabotone. No Chabotone. We're just going through the same thing after she's like, oh, just go to the desk. I'm like, okay, go to the desk.
00:31:11
Natalie Richards
Oh my god
00:31:12
Felicia Devine
They can't figure it out either. And I'm like, but listen here, the reservation was yesterday.
00:31:17
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:31:18
Felicia Devine
And we just need to check in for that room from yesterday. and they're like, you're staying till Tuesday. And I was just like, sure.
00:31:24
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:31:25
Felicia Devine
Like, I'm not, but I'm just going to tell you I am because you're just going to get so much more confused if I tell you I'm checking out on Sunday.
00:31:25
Natalie Richards
Yes. Right. right
00:31:32
Felicia Devine
So we're not going to check out. So they finally were like, oh, oh yeah, here's your room. And it's in building eight.
00:31:41
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:31:41
Felicia Devine
Was I in eight?
00:31:41
Natalie Richards
Yes. You were an eight.
00:31:42
Felicia Devine
Okay. Yeah. And Natalie and the other room or the other condo were in seven, which like, it's not like a normal hotel where like all the rooms are in one building.
00:31:47
Natalie Richards
Seven.
00:31:53
Felicia Devine
It's like, it's like apartment complex style. Like you're in like, you're walking outside down pathways to get to other buildings.
00:31:56
Natalie Richards
Pretty much.
00:32:01
Felicia Devine
It was like not connected.
00:32:03
Natalie Richards
Full on next door.
00:32:04
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:32:05
Natalie Richards
Also, I was like, oh yeah, your room will be next to ours. Like you can use our kitchen to cook Sep's food.
00:32:08
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:10
Natalie Richards
It's going to be fine. Don't worry about it.
00:32:12
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:32:12
Natalie Richards
It was just every part of what I told you was false.
Experiencing Disney with Kids
00:32:17
Natalie Richards
And I am so sorry.
00:32:18
Felicia Devine
It's fine. We had a blast.
00:32:19
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:32:19
Felicia Devine
Honestly, we had a blast. and like Giuseppe struggles sleeping out of his routine anyway.
00:32:25
Natalie Richards
hu
00:32:26
Felicia Devine
So I kind of expected that. So the first night we got in, oh, well, I was planning on putting Step to bed that night we got in and then going to see Natalie.
00:32:27
Natalie Richards
That was rough.
00:32:33
Felicia Devine
He didn't fall asleep to almost 11 o'clock. He was scream crying unless he was nursing.
00:32:35
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Screaming.
00:32:38
Felicia Devine
And then I would take him off from nursing to put him down. Scream cry. It was a disaster.
00:32:42
Natalie Richards
So bad.
00:32:43
Felicia Devine
So I didn't even see you till, when did I see you?
00:32:44
Natalie Richards
Yep. No, that was part ah
00:32:47
Felicia Devine
Oh, Friday morning.
00:32:48
Natalie Richards
yeah that was part of the reason why we didn't get to do any of the things that we needed to do.
00:32:49
Felicia Devine
Right? Yeah.
00:32:52
Felicia Devine
Yeah. yep a I was too far away.
00:32:54
Natalie Richards
Because we actually didn't have any time.
00:32:56
Felicia Devine
And B, my kid didn't sleep.
00:32:57
Natalie Richards
we actually, you and I didn't really have much time, just us at all, which is totally fine.
00:33:01
Felicia Devine
The longest we had together was in line for the bar.
00:33:04
Natalie Richards
Literally. At the pool. That's so true.
00:33:08
Felicia Devine
To order lunch and drinks.
00:33:10
Natalie Richards
Which i we shouldn't have have assumed anything other than that.
00:33:14
Felicia Devine
No. if we If we want to go on a business trip, Natalie, it's just you and I.
00:33:19
Natalie Richards
Just you and i for real.
00:33:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:33:20
Natalie Richards
Please, before you get pregnant.
00:33:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah. I know.
00:33:23
Natalie Richards
Please.
00:33:23
Felicia Devine
Yes. Business trip.
00:33:24
Natalie Richards
So, like, next month.
00:33:27
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Seriously. We're cutting into my deadline with getting pregnant, though.
00:33:32
Natalie Richards
But, I mean, I know. i know you are. um But, like, you remember our trip to Park City with Gene that one time when he was, like, eight months old?
00:33:35
Felicia Devine
Ugh.
00:33:40
Felicia Devine
Yes. It was March.
00:33:41
Natalie Richards
10 months old, whatever, i was strung out.
00:33:42
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:33:44
Natalie Richards
I was like, this is horrible.
00:33:45
Felicia Devine
Oh, we didn't, I think, I don't think we had like a real conversation. Yeah.
00:33:48
Natalie Richards
We didn't. I was like, this is the worst.
00:33:50
Felicia Devine
You texted me after that trip and you're like, sorry, we didn't get to talk much.
00:33:54
Felicia Devine
i'm like We literally went on a trip together, stayed in the same house together, went skiing together and never talked.
00:33:54
Natalie Richards
but not Not one minute.
00:34:01
Natalie Richards
It makes me really sad.
00:34:02
Felicia Devine
Yeah, I know.
00:34:03
Natalie Richards
like Really sad. Also, those are the last couple times that we've actually really been together.
00:34:04
Felicia Devine
But like,
00:34:08
Felicia Devine
right on trips together. I know.
00:34:10
Natalie Richards
but Which is really sad.
00:34:11
Felicia Devine
Except for you came for my baby shower without Jean.
00:34:12
Natalie Richards
I came for your baby shower, but then that still wasn't like a ton of, there was a lot of things going on.
00:34:15
Felicia Devine
That was super busy. No.
00:34:17
Natalie Richards
So we really need to do something.
00:34:18
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:20
Natalie Richards
I don't know what it's going to be.
00:34:20
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:34:21
Natalie Richards
I don't even care what it is.
00:34:22
Felicia Devine
I don't either. i know. I really want.
00:34:25
Natalie Richards
Well, I guess we had Palmer homecoming. We had Palmer homecoming. That was about it.
00:34:28
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah, but i was I was one day pregnant and had my hip fall my hip fell off.
00:34:30
Natalie Richards
You were, yeah. Yeah. Yes.
00:34:34
Felicia Devine
So I was like decapitated or debilitated.
00:34:36
Natalie Richards
or her Oh my God.
00:34:36
Felicia Devine
I can't use words today. Okay. Wait, I had one more thing to talk about with a room reservation. i can't remember what it was. I can't recall. Oh, okay. Okay. So Natalie's hotel room was the three bedroom condo, had a full kitchen, dining room, living room, all this stuff. So we go over Friday morning for breakfast and your mom had so many injuries.
00:35:03
Natalie Richards
God. Okay. My mom, we haven't talked about this.
00:35:07
Felicia Devine
No, your mom was
00:35:07
Natalie Richards
My mom broke her wrist. The literally the Day before she left on a plane.
00:35:12
Felicia Devine
day before she left. because she was looking at the the northern lights.
00:35:15
Natalie Richards
The Northern Lights, the fake Northern Lights, which we also need to like dive into the conspiracies about the Northern Lights at some point.
00:35:19
Felicia Devine
Wait. I didn't know that.
00:35:22
Natalie Richards
I haven't dove into them yet, but we're going to.
00:35:24
Felicia Devine
Okay. Well, i didn't even know that was a thing. So now that's a new topic I have to research.
00:35:26
Natalie Richards
They were red. Since when are the Northern Lights red?
00:35:29
Felicia Devine
Is it...
00:35:32
Felicia Devine
Wasn't this also during government shutdown?
00:35:34
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:35:35
Felicia Devine
And also that spaceship?
00:35:35
Natalie Richards
Okay. Just, we just, there's, there's some things that need to be discussed.
00:35:36
Felicia Devine
Well, it's it's a comet. It's a comet. It's a spaceship. Okay.
00:35:43
Natalie Richards
okay
00:35:43
Felicia Devine
We need to have...
00:35:44
Natalie Richards
But she was going to look at the fake Northern Lights and she was amazed by the Northern Lights and she falls over this metal chaise lounge that she has out on her deck.
00:35:44
Felicia Devine
Okay. Okay.
00:35:52
Felicia Devine
Yes. Yes.
00:35:54
Natalie Richards
And basically plants all fours on the concrete floor, breaks her wrist.
00:35:55
Felicia Devine
Literally.
00:36:01
Natalie Richards
Thankfully, in probably the best place you could break your wrist, it's just the little like styloid process on the radius is the only thing that broke.
00:36:07
Felicia Devine
Okay. So no surgery, right?
00:36:09
Natalie Richards
So no surgery. They were, I mean, they were concerned about a scaphoid fracture, of course, but they didn't know that that didn't happen until last week when they re-X-rayed it.
00:36:14
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:36:17
Felicia Devine
I was going say you to react to a scaphoids.
00:36:18
Natalie Richards
yeah. Yeah. So thankfully nothing else.
00:36:20
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:36:21
Natalie Richards
So I'm like, mom, good for you.
00:36:21
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:36:23
Natalie Richards
Your bone density is pretty good. Like you're – because she should have broken pretty much every every appendage.
00:36:26
Felicia Devine
Cause she should have shattered both kneecaps, her foot.
00:36:32
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:33
Natalie Richards
And she didn't. And that's like – that's really good.
00:36:36
Felicia Devine
That's really good.
00:36:37
Natalie Richards
–
00:36:40
Natalie Richards
so
00:36:40
Felicia Devine
Okay. So we walk in to Natalie's room. Anita is bandaged up head to toe with castor oil all over her body. She was actually, she was so flammable.
00:36:49
Natalie Richards
You're right. She was castroiling every day.
00:36:53
Felicia Devine
This is crazy. She was so flammable. So Natalie is like always like kind of leading the charge in the kitchen. So she's like, okay, I'm going to start breakfast. And Dan was like, let me know if you need help. Anita's like, I got the bread.
00:37:06
Felicia Devine
She's trying to open the bread, cut bread. Dan's like, Anita, let me just do it. And she's like, no, I got it. And so Dan and Anita have three hands combined. They're making bread together.
00:37:19
Felicia Devine
Well, they're not making bread. They're cutting bread and toasting it.
00:37:21
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:37:21
Felicia Devine
So it's like, what time was it? Like 7.30 in the morning, 8 o'clock?
00:37:24
Natalie Richards
It was 7.30. Jean was still asleep.
00:37:26
Felicia Devine
Yeah, Jean likes to sleep in. And all of a sudden, the smoke alarm is going off and the kitchen is practically on fire because your mom toasted bread.
00:37:36
Felicia Devine
And she's like, oh yeah, didn't this happen the night before?
00:37:38
Natalie Richards
It happened four or five times the whole time.
00:37:40
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:37:41
Natalie Richards
Yes, she had done it the night before.
00:37:41
Felicia Devine
So the whole trip, she just kept setting this fire alarm off.
00:37:42
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:37:45
Felicia Devine
There's smoke everywhere. They're like fanning the smoke alarms. And then poor Jean wakes up.
00:37:48
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:37:50
Felicia Devine
And this was the first five minutes I was with Natalie.
00:37:52
Natalie Richards
It was really...
00:37:52
Felicia Devine
And this is why we didn't record a podcast.
00:37:57
Natalie Richards
it was ridiculous.
00:37:59
Felicia Devine
It was a great time, though. We had so much fun.
00:38:01
Natalie Richards
It was so much fun. Okay. Animal Kingdom was so Okay, wait.
00:38:06
Felicia Devine
To die for.
00:38:07
Natalie Richards
Talk about your first... You guys decided that you were going to go Magic Kingdom by yourselves last second.
00:38:11
Felicia Devine
Yes. Very last second. Very last second. Okay. So we flew in Thursday night, got in. Natalie's family was there earlier. So like you guys went off to dinner.
00:38:23
Felicia Devine
We came in and we're like, we're just going to go straight to the hotel. We'll get food at the hotel and go to bed.
00:38:25
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:38:27
Felicia Devine
Cause the pack and play should have been in the room, you know, like,
00:38:29
Natalie Richards
ah Everything should have been really smooth.
00:38:32
Felicia Devine
yeah, like we should have jumped right in bed.
00:38:33
Natalie Richards
And it wasn't. Yep,
00:38:34
Felicia Devine
Um, so we go to the hotel, we're sitting there eating. And of course Dan's like, Oh, what's the plan tomorrow? Because of course I don't know what any plans are. And I'm like, Oh, I think it's a pool day.
00:38:44
Felicia Devine
And he's like a pool day. And I was like, yeah. And he's like, we're not going to,
00:38:48
Natalie Richards
Danny wants to be doing things.
00:38:50
Felicia Devine
Danny's a go-getter. He goes, oh, we're not doing Disney? And I said, oh, no, the only plan to do Disney was Saturday. And he's like, what why aren't we doing Disney tomorrow? And I was like, well, because Natalie said we're doing Disney Saturday.
00:39:05
Felicia Devine
And I don't question what Natalie says.
00:39:08
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:39:08
Felicia Devine
And he's like, well, don't you think we should do Disney if we're here? And I was like, yeah, i totally agree. Like, we don't have to do a pool day. And I was like, let me look at tickets for Disney and let's just like go. And he's like, OK. So we're like, it's 8 o'clock at night. We're sitting by this like pool getting dinner and I'm trying to purchase Magic Kingdom tickets. And I'm like, I think this is what it is. So I just buy us like tickets for the next morning.
00:39:35
Felicia Devine
We wake up, we go eat breakfast with Natalie. Like we are in zero rush, like quite literally zero rush.
00:39:39
Natalie Richards
Yes. Which was is good. When you have a baby and you're doing Disney, I think it's a good thing.
00:39:41
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. I was like, i was like, I'm not making rope drop.
00:39:47
Natalie Richards
No.
00:39:47
Felicia Devine
I'm not making any plans. We bought zero. Um, what are the lightning lanes?
00:39:52
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:39:53
Felicia Devine
Is that what it's called?
00:39:54
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:39:54
Felicia Devine
We didn't buy any of those. We didn't reserve anything. I didn't even look at a map of magic kingdom before I walked in and got a paper copy. Cause I'm like, I'm so confused.
00:40:01
Natalie Richards
Which is so funny because people prepare for months for these trips.
00:40:04
Felicia Devine
I'm like, They plan their trips months and a year in advance with like a real planner.
00:40:07
Natalie Richards
I know. oh
00:40:10
Felicia Devine
And I'm here just like willy-nilly purchasing.
00:40:13
Natalie Richards
Buying tickets tonight.
00:40:14
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So we show up. It's like you you show up with your – you like drive in, right? We're staying off-campus. I don't know it's called. Off-site.
00:40:22
Natalie Richards
yeah
00:40:23
Felicia Devine
We drive up and there's like two prices for parking. It's like normal person peasant parking or –
00:40:28
Natalie Richards
That still is $45.
00:40:31
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Or like smidge closer parking. Don't have to take a tram. And I said, if I have to take one more vehicle to get inside this park, I'm going to lose my mind.
00:40:36
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:40:41
Felicia Devine
So we paid for the like VIP parking.
00:40:43
Natalie Richards
the Yes, the preferred parking.
00:40:44
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Preferred parking.
00:40:45
Natalie Richards
Which really is only maybe $15 more worth every penny.
00:40:45
Felicia Devine
That's what it was.
00:40:49
Felicia Devine
Yeah, which worth every penny.
00:40:50
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:40:51
Felicia Devine
Okay, so we park and we start walking and I'm like, oh my gosh, we didn't have an a lick of Disney on our outfits. we We looked like we were outsiders from Mars. We didn't fit in. We didn't bring any food with us. We didn't bring any water with us. I'm watching, people are carrying coolers in, they're carrying water bottles in, they're carrying reusable cups and popcorn buckets. And I'm like,
00:41:17
Felicia Devine
Are we allowed to do like, I literally saw a family carrying bags of chips, cans of Coke and full on sandwiches. And I'm like, I'm like, wait, you're allowed to do that.
00:41:25
Natalie Richards
That's crazy.
00:41:28
Felicia Devine
Like we're used to going to Philadelphia sports where you can't even bring a chapstick like literally.
00:41:31
Natalie Richards
you can't bring anything. No, you have your little clear bag that's this big.
00:41:34
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Clear bag. And you can have a piece of gum and a quarter.
00:41:35
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:37
Felicia Devine
And I'm literally like, Dan, we should have looked this up. Like, you know how much money we're going to spend because we didn't know you could even bring water in. So we walk in and like have nothing with us.
00:41:50
Felicia Devine
And I literally told the security guard that was checking our bags. I was like, you can tell we've never been here. We have nothing with us. And he started laughing. and I'm like, oh gosh, what are we getting ourselves into? So then you have to take like 10 more modes of transport transportation to even get to the like gate to enter.
00:41:59
Natalie Richards
Oh my God.
00:42:03
Natalie Richards
Yes. Magic Kingdom is intense, actually.
00:42:04
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:42:06
Natalie Richards
Like you get in, you're walking through the parking lot, even preferred parking.
00:42:07
Felicia Devine
ah
00:42:11
Natalie Richards
You're walking down the hill, up through the security.
00:42:11
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:42:14
Natalie Richards
Then you have to go to the monorail. And then you, oh my gosh.
00:42:16
Felicia Devine
monorail. You have to walk more.
00:42:20
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:42:20
Felicia Devine
i did a lot of walking that day. Okay. So, so then we get in and we like look up and it's just packed. We're on like main street. And I'm just like, what is going on?
00:42:29
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:42:31
Felicia Devine
And I just was like so overwhelmed, but I also had like a raging headache that day. And I was just like, what do we do? so I was like, I need, I need a cold brew. And so I'm like looking around and I'm like, where's a coffee shop? I, Dan and I spent,
00:42:46
Felicia Devine
forever trying to figure out how to get coffee at Disney.
00:42:49
Natalie Richards
Oh.
00:42:49
Felicia Devine
I finally found somebody that was carrying a Starbucks and i was like, Oh, where'd you get your coffee? She's like, Oh, there's the Starbucks. But the line's like 40 people out the door.
00:42:57
Natalie Richards
oh
00:42:58
Felicia Devine
She's like, yeah, you're gonna have to wait. And I was like, that's not for me. So we just like kept walking and walking. And it was like an hour into our day before we found a coffee shop, but like Disney's so confusing.
00:43:10
Felicia Devine
I get now why people plan it in advance.
00:43:10
Natalie Richards
it's I know. You have to like kind of know where you want to go and what your general plan needs to be.
00:43:13
Felicia Devine
You can't just show up on a whim. Let me tell you. Yes. We didn't, we didn't make a move to do a single thing for like almost two hours.
00:43:25
Felicia Devine
We just like walked around aimlessly and we were like,
00:43:28
Natalie Richards
you were just like stunned. Yeah.
00:43:29
Felicia Devine
We literally were like, what is happening? And then you almost feel inclined to like take the picture because you're like, oh, is this where like people take pictures? But then like you walk 10 more feet and you're like, oh wait, people are taking pictures of this angle.
00:43:42
Felicia Devine
Oh, let's take a picture. Like the amount of angles i got of the castle and like each time got like closer and better.
00:43:43
Natalie Richards
Oh my gosh.
00:43:49
Felicia Devine
I'm like, okay, so the people on main street, what are they doing?
00:43:53
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:43:53
Felicia Devine
What's the point?
00:43:54
Natalie Richards
And it is so incredibly busy on main street as you're coming into magic kingdom.
00:43:54
Felicia Devine
Walk up to the castle. Oh. It was so stressful.
00:43:58
Natalie Richards
It's crazy. What did you guys ride any rides there?
00:44:00
Felicia Devine
ah Eventually. So then we like kind of like calmed down.
00:44:03
Natalie Richards
Okay. Okay.
00:44:05
Felicia Devine
It was like you had like the pregame jitters. We were just like, we can't make a decision. we like we just like we're kind of aimlessly like surrounded by a lot of chaos.
00:44:10
Natalie Richards
my God.
00:44:15
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:44:16
Felicia Devine
So we finally did the Dumbo ride, which was like so fun.
00:44:19
Natalie Richards
It's cute. It's adorable.
00:44:21
Felicia Devine
And then we like, we sat down.
00:44:21
Natalie Richards
Classic.
00:44:23
Felicia Devine
So I did like one ride and then I was like, I need to sit.
00:44:23
Natalie Richards
hu
00:44:25
Felicia Devine
So like we sat down and I nursed Giuseppe and like, we kind of just like calmed ourselves down and then we put him down for a nap. And then when we, he napped in a stroller, we just like walked the park and kind of got our bearings straight.
00:44:36
Felicia Devine
And then we started doing a few things when he woke up, but oh golly jeepers.
00:44:37
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Mm hmm.
00:44:41
Felicia Devine
I was like, this is not for me. It ended up being fine, but it was just like Magic Kingdom is like a concrete jungle.
00:44:49
Natalie Richards
Yeah, it is.
00:44:50
Felicia Devine
And I don't, I don't prefer that.
00:44:52
Natalie Richards
yeah So then contrast that to what our planned, Natalie's planned day of Animal Kingdom.
00:44:55
Felicia Devine
Oh, Natalie's day of animal kingdom blew my socks off. I would do it 40 times over.
00:45:03
Natalie Richards
It was actually magical beyond belief.
00:45:06
Felicia Devine
Lovely,
00:45:08
Natalie Richards
It was so good.
00:45:09
Felicia Devine
very well executed, lovely weather, perfect timing.
00:45:14
Natalie Richards
It was perfect. Perfect.
00:45:16
Felicia Devine
Oh my God.
00:45:17
Natalie Richards
Perfect.
00:45:17
Felicia Devine
oh let's talk about the bird show.
00:45:19
Natalie Richards
Oh my God. Okay. Okay.
00:45:20
Felicia Devine
Oh, the bird show.
00:45:21
Natalie Richards
Felicia and i both. Okay. We were walking into Disney. I had it like we were planned. Like we were, it was ready to go.
00:45:29
Felicia Devine
Okay. Yeah. Natalie, Natalie said 915 bird show at the entrance and everyone's like, we don't know what this means, but like we love birds.
00:45:31
Natalie Richards
Like we had it by the, yes.
00:45:39
Felicia Devine
So we'll participate.
00:45:39
Natalie Richards
I know. i was like, Dan loves a bird. And I'm like, we need to be there for this bird show.
00:45:42
Felicia Devine
We love a bird. We'll never say no. Yeah.
00:45:45
Natalie Richards
I didn't even know what, I didn't even know what we were
00:45:45
Felicia Devine
Okay. I didn't even know what kind of bird we were looking at.
00:45:49
Natalie Richards
No, I had no idea. i truly didn't.
00:45:50
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:45:51
Natalie Richards
And i when I tell you like things were planned, I planned things, but I also didn't really know that this was going to work.
00:45:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Right. Like it could have immediately derailed.
00:45:58
Natalie Richards
Because I actually went against every plan that you see on the internet.
00:46:04
Felicia Devine
Oh, did you?
00:46:05
Natalie Richards
I kind of did the opposite, truthfully.
00:46:07
Felicia Devine
oh I love that. I wouldn't have known.
00:46:10
Natalie Richards
So I was like, okay, we're going not get there at Rope Drop.
00:46:11
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:46:15
Natalie Richards
We're going to get there for the second bird show of the day at 9.15.
00:46:15
Felicia Devine
yeah
00:46:20
Felicia Devine
Oh, it was the second one.
00:46:20
Natalie Richards
Let's not go too crazy.
00:46:21
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:46:22
Natalie Richards
Like, let's let's just, you know, take our morning and get there.
00:46:25
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Which we almost wear the bird we almost missed the bird show because a few people had to use the bathroom before we even got into the park.
00:46:29
Natalie Richards
We almost missed it.
00:46:33
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:46:34
Felicia Devine
Anita.
00:46:35
Natalie Richards
We almost missed it. So we what we're like, we're we're booking it, okay?
00:46:39
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:46:39
Natalie Richards
Like we really are we're We're kind of kind of racing.
00:46:41
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:46:43
Natalie Richards
and we come down. We're like walking through the main entrance. We come down to where the Tree of Life is and Animal Kingdom.
00:46:49
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:46:51
Natalie Richards
And bird show had started kind of.
00:46:54
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:46:55
Natalie Richards
And we're like coming down. I didn't really want to be where the whole crowd was anyway. so we were kind of behind everything up a little bit.
00:46:59
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:47:02
Natalie Richards
And it starts – like we start seeing like a couple birds fly.
00:47:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:47:07
Natalie Richards
And then all of a sudden, the music and all of these birds come out at the same time. And we're walking in
00:47:14
Felicia Devine
They were like, what was it? a tropical bird? Like a macaw?
00:47:16
Natalie Richards
They were parrots, macaw, like whatever.
00:47:18
Felicia Devine
Parrot? Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:19
Natalie Richards
They're not parrots, but they look like parrots to me.
00:47:21
Felicia Devine
They were these rainbow, beautiful tailed, long birds you see in like The Lion King.
00:47:27
Natalie Richards
And we're literally – as we're walking in, this all is happening –
00:47:31
Felicia Devine
This music comes on around surround sound. Birds start flying over our heads in like this wave-like fashion. ah So many birds.
00:47:42
Felicia Devine
I look over at Natalie. We're both crying.
00:47:44
Natalie Richards
We both are like, are we crying right now? i literally had tears in my eyes.
00:47:48
Felicia Devine
30 seconds into our Disney experience, it was the most joyous experience.
00:47:54
Natalie Richards
It was so cute having everybody there. We all made it.
00:47:56
Felicia Devine
I loved it.
00:47:57
Natalie Richards
It was like, oh my gosh, you guys, we made it.
00:47:57
Felicia Devine
Yes. It's starting.
00:47:59
Natalie Richards
We're here. Like, yes.
00:48:00
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:48:01
Natalie Richards
So then we go the dinosaur ride because Gene needed to do this ride.
00:48:02
Felicia Devine
ah
00:48:05
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah.
00:48:07
Natalie Richards
He's three and a half.
00:48:08
Felicia Devine
I'm shocked.
00:48:08
Natalie Richards
It was far too scary for him.
00:48:10
Felicia Devine
I'm shocked. He thrived.
00:48:12
Natalie Richards
he loved He loved it.
00:48:13
Felicia Devine
He loved it
00:48:14
Natalie Richards
He like was definitely – couldn't see him half the time on this ride because it was pitch black with scary dinosaurs coming around you.
00:48:18
Felicia Devine
I couldn't see myself. It was pitch black. And I got whiplash.
00:48:24
Natalie Richards
it's literally That I think is what screwed me up the rest of the day.
00:48:27
Felicia Devine
Oh, we'll get we'll get there.
00:48:28
Natalie Richards
Oh, we have a lot to talk about with this one.
00:48:30
Felicia Devine
We'll get there.
00:48:30
Natalie Richards
um We saw Donald Duck, which was Gene's one one character he wanted to see. And that was all that was all in the dinosaur land, which is kind of no longer anymore.
00:48:38
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:48:43
Natalie Richards
It was all under construction in there.
00:48:43
Felicia Devine
Right. Yeah.
00:48:45
Natalie Richards
They're changing it. But the ride was great.
00:48:46
Felicia Devine
So we were just there a brief period.
00:48:48
Natalie Richards
We did our rider swap because we figured out how to do that.
00:48:48
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:48:51
Natalie Richards
The girls went and then the boys went and it was perfect.
00:48:51
Felicia Devine
Right. Mm-hmm. It was lovely.
00:48:56
Natalie Richards
Perfect.
00:48:57
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm.
00:48:57
Natalie Richards
Waited, i don't even know, 10 minutes. It was it was nothing.
00:48:59
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:49:01
Natalie Richards
um So that's what I wanted to do first. so We didn't have a rat i have a line. Then we go and we see our little street performers. We had a little snack. We took our pictures.
00:49:10
Felicia Devine
Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah.
00:49:12
Natalie Richards
And then went to the Finding Nemo show and that was awesome.
00:49:14
Felicia Devine
Lovely.
00:49:16
Natalie Richards
adorable adorable no
00:49:16
Felicia Devine
Lovely. Wait, so we didn't sit together for that show. Dan and I sat in the back because it was almost step snap time. So I was going to nurse him and see if I could get him to sleep.
00:49:24
Natalie Richards
yeah they loved it they thought it was so cool yeah that was like magical I think Quincy Quincy cried at that so like everybody had I think my mom and Quincy both cried at that one was so cute yeah
00:49:25
Felicia Devine
But what did the kids think? Like Jean and Carson. Did they? Yeah. It was really cute. Oh, oh, it was really cute. It was so it was so much larger than life.
00:49:44
Felicia Devine
Like they had these silk animals that they were attached to on sticks and they were like, cause obviously it's like underwater.
00:49:48
Natalie Richards
on sticks and like it was very broadway
00:49:53
Felicia Devine
So it was like, it was very Broadway and they were like flowing.
00:49:55
Natalie Richards
okay
00:49:56
Felicia Devine
It was like kites almost. It was really cool.
00:49:59
Natalie Richards
so cool and then then we kind of like another bird show you're right
00:50:00
Felicia Devine
Okay. So we did that. Where did we go next? Oh, another bird show. But we, we stayed out cause Steph was sleeping.
00:50:09
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah. Gene was like not into that one.
00:50:11
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:50:12
Natalie Richards
He kind of was getting a little like, a little stir crazy, a little like, I don't want to do a show anymore.
00:50:12
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:50:17
Felicia Devine
Okay.
00:50:21
Natalie Richards
wanted to walk around.
00:50:21
Felicia Devine
He wanted to like walk around. Yeah.
00:50:23
Natalie Richards
And I honestly don't even remember what we did after that.
00:50:26
Felicia Devine
We did the yeah, we did the walk through
00:50:27
Natalie Richards
Step fell asleep. Yeah. Cause there was, yeah, there's like a, there's tons of little walks you can do.
00:50:33
Felicia Devine
sir
00:50:33
Natalie Richards
There's animals you can see. There's tigers and zebras.
00:50:35
Felicia Devine
We saw lions.
00:50:36
Natalie Richards
and
00:50:37
Felicia Devine
Yeah. It was really cool.
00:50:38
Natalie Richards
it's very, very cool. I think animal kingdom is awesome.
00:50:40
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:50:41
Natalie Richards
Then we had lunch, right?
00:50:41
Felicia Devine
Yeah. yeah
00:50:44
Natalie Richards
I adjusted you.
00:50:44
Felicia Devine
Oh, I got a baller adjustment.
00:50:45
Natalie Richards
but well
00:50:46
Felicia Devine
I had a headache for like, well, the headache started the day before that. I'm, I had that headache, Natalie, for like seven days straight.
00:50:53
Natalie Richards
Oh my gosh.
00:50:54
Felicia Devine
Not kidding. It was crazy.
00:50:56
Natalie Richards
That's wild.
00:50:57
Felicia Devine
I felt like trash. Anyway, despite feeling terrible.
00:50:58
Natalie Richards
That is so not good. And your tailbone was all screwed up though that trip too.
00:51:01
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. I had to keep sitting down.
00:51:04
Natalie Richards
We needed to go find a an office that we could have adjusted each other at.
00:51:04
Felicia Devine
Oh, I know.
00:51:08
Natalie Richards
Another thing that we could have done, but we didn't have time for
00:51:08
Felicia Devine
I know. Right. I have time for it.
00:51:13
Natalie Richards
So then we went to the Lion King show. We saw like street performers. It was just so cool.
00:51:19
Felicia Devine
Yes.
00:51:21
Natalie Richards
Like in the Africa land, it's amazing.
00:51:22
Felicia Devine
It was so cool.
00:51:24
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:51:24
Felicia Devine
who
00:51:26
Natalie Richards
did the Lion King show, Gene melted down.
00:51:28
Felicia Devine
We were front row.
00:51:30
Natalie Richards
Gene melted down.
00:51:30
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah.
00:51:31
Natalie Richards
So like he was, did he, he fell asleep. He fell asleep in the stroller right before that.
00:51:34
Felicia Devine
Right before that. okay
00:51:36
Natalie Richards
And I was like, I'm just going to like try to get him out. I tried to get him out of the stroller and he goes, he was like not having it.
00:51:43
Felicia Devine
Not having it.
00:51:43
Natalie Richards
So he and Kyle unfortunately missed the Lion King show, which whatever, that was our our one casualty.
00:51:44
Felicia Devine
No. No.
00:51:48
Felicia Devine
Oh, it was cool though, but yeah.
00:51:50
Natalie Richards
It was fine. ah The Lion King show is amazing.
00:51:53
Felicia Devine
Yes. We were like randomly front row.
00:51:54
Natalie Richards
Kyle, yes, it was so cool.
00:51:57
Felicia Devine
So cool.
00:51:58
Natalie Richards
So cool. So then um after that, I think we did the safari, right?
00:52:05
Felicia Devine
Yes, because Seth fell asleep. Literally, we walked out of the Lion King show, put him in a stroller, started to, like, congregate.
00:52:12
Natalie Richards
Oh, yes.
00:52:12
Felicia Devine
Because with stroller parking, you just grab what you can get. So, like, usually we weren't parked next to each other.
00:52:14
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:52:17
Felicia Devine
So when we, like, all congregated, Seth was already asleep.
00:52:17
Natalie Richards
Right.
00:52:20
Natalie Richards
Yep. He was asleep.
00:52:20
Felicia Devine
So...
00:52:20
Natalie Richards
And then we did another walk, didn't we?
00:52:22
Felicia Devine
You guys did something. You did the gorilla walk, but I needed to eat lunch and you can't take food into the gorilla walk.
00:52:24
Natalie Richards
We did the gorilla. The gorillas were so cool. Yes. Yes.
00:52:31
Felicia Devine
So I ate my sandwich cause I needed to eat like the other half of it and step napped.
00:52:32
Natalie Richards
Yes. Yes.
00:52:36
Felicia Devine
So yeah.
00:52:36
Natalie Richards
Yep. Yep. And that was perfect. The kids all kind of like, they all napped when they needed to.
00:52:39
Felicia Devine
Yeah. They did their own thing.
00:52:42
Natalie Richards
So and none of it was coordinated, but it didn't matter because it we had enough like downtime activities that they could nap if they wanted to enough like shows, enough rides.
00:52:45
Felicia Devine
No, it didn't matter. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:52
Natalie Richards
Then we did the safari ride and that is the coolest, the coolest thing ever.
00:52:55
Felicia Devine
Oh, so cute. I didn't know it was going to be like, it's like real vehicles.
00:53:01
Natalie Richards
Real vehicles.
00:53:01
Felicia Devine
It's not a track.
00:53:02
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:53:03
Felicia Devine
It's not a tram.
00:53:04
Natalie Richards
Somebody is driving your safari vehicle.
00:53:04
Felicia Devine
It's like a gigantic safari vehicle and like a driver.
00:53:06
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And you're out in like the Serengeti. It is so cool.
00:53:13
Felicia Devine
And there are no gates. There are no fences.
00:53:14
Natalie Richards
no
00:53:15
Felicia Devine
Like the giraffe literally walked right by our car and there were like babies.
00:53:19
Natalie Richards
and it'll stop. Like if there's animals in the way, like the ride will be delayed and stopped, which it did happen.
00:53:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was very cool.
00:53:25
Natalie Richards
Um, and then we like raced our way. Cause I had, I had figured out the lightning lanes and we had, so we did like, yeah, we had lightning ma lanes for a few things, which was really nice.
00:53:31
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:53:37
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:53:38
Natalie Richards
It worked out really well.
00:53:38
Felicia Devine
It was perfect.
00:53:40
Natalie Richards
Um, if anybody has questions on my itinerary, I can post it. Um,
00:53:43
Felicia Devine
Don't ask me. o
00:53:46
Natalie Richards
um And that was worth it. It was worth the $25 to do a multi-pass, to have a few attractions that you choose that you want to have a
00:53:49
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:53:52
Felicia Devine
Oh, yeah.
00:53:55
Felicia Devine
If
Animal Kingdom Highlights
00:53:55
Felicia Devine
I... If I ever go back, I'm getting the unlimited like full day because time is money, baby.
00:53:55
Natalie Richards
lightning lane for.
00:53:59
Natalie Richards
i know, just to just do it. If you're going, yeah, if you're going, you might as well do it.
00:54:03
Felicia Devine
If you're making the effort to get all the way there, what the heck? Waiting in those lines, not worth it.
00:54:06
Natalie Richards
I know. ah Not for like an hour and a half to wait in some of these rides.
00:54:11
Felicia Devine
For a 60 second ride.
00:54:12
Natalie Richards
No.
00:54:13
Felicia Devine
Goodbye.
00:54:13
Natalie Richards
So then my brother and Quincy and i we had to get to our like, and to get to this silly ride.
00:54:21
Felicia Devine
we we did that.
00:54:22
Natalie Richards
Oh, we did the river.
00:54:22
Felicia Devine
Wait, we did the Navi river.
00:54:23
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Okay. The avatar land is very cool.
00:54:25
Felicia Devine
Whoa. The animatronics of the river cruise of the Navi situation.
00:54:29
Natalie Richards
It was so cool.
00:54:32
Felicia Devine
i was convinced that that thing was real. It was so fluid.
00:54:35
Natalie Richards
It was amazing.
00:54:37
Felicia Devine
It was crazy. It was creepy in a good way.
00:54:38
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:39
Felicia Devine
It was cool.
00:54:40
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Had you ever watched the Avatar movie?
00:54:40
Felicia Devine
Yeah. I've seen the first one.
00:54:44
Natalie Richards
Okay. i had I had seen it, but then we watched it again actually on that trip.
00:54:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:54:48
Natalie Richards
And I was like, this is a really cool movie.
00:54:49
Felicia Devine
Oh, did you?
00:54:51
Natalie Richards
I like it a lot.
00:54:51
Felicia Devine
It's crazy. Yeah.
00:54:52
Natalie Richards
It's a really good movie. So then I was like, okay, that was cool that we went to the Avatar land.
00:54:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:54:57
Natalie Richards
So my brother...
00:54:57
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Wait, tell them about the avatar ride you did.
00:54:59
Natalie Richards
The other one. So we did the big, like, major ride that literally is an hour and a half for people to to ride on, to to wait in line for this ride.
00:55:09
Felicia Devine
Oh.
00:55:09
Natalie Richards
And it's like a – so we had a like a separate lightning lane for that, just like us that we wanted because we just wanted to do it.
00:55:13
Felicia Devine
yeah Yeah. I did not want to do that.
00:55:17
Natalie Richards
I thought it was more of like ah like a roller coaster, and it was not.
00:55:21
Felicia Devine
Okay. Mm-mm.
00:55:23
Natalie Richards
It was –
00:55:26
Natalie Richards
like 4D, you're like strapped into this thing and you're watching and you have glasses on
00:55:29
Felicia Devine
Oh,
00:55:33
Felicia Devine
oh you had glasses on.
00:55:34
Natalie Richards
You have like 4D glasses on. So its it makes you kind of trip out.
00:55:37
Felicia Devine
Oh, are people in front of you?
00:55:40
Natalie Richards
No, it's like you're in one long line of six people in your little like, and it's a screen that you're watching pretty much.
00:55:40
Felicia Devine
Are you?
00:55:43
Felicia Devine
oh okay. Okay.
00:55:47
Natalie Richards
And you're like strapped into this thing and it like, it it's very interesting and it's moving, it's blowing stuff on you.
00:55:50
Felicia Devine
Wow.
00:55:55
Natalie Richards
It's like,
00:55:56
Felicia Devine
You're getting wet.
00:55:58
Natalie Richards
You're getting – literally it sprays – not even kidding.
00:56:00
Felicia Devine
Oh, oh.
00:56:01
Natalie Richards
Like it sprays water. and So you're like flying on this animal is what you're flying on. I forget what the animal is called in Avatar. But you're you're essentially flying on this thing.
00:56:10
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:56:12
Natalie Richards
So it's going fast. Like whatever you're doing is like twisting and turning and it's moving you.
00:56:14
Felicia Devine
Oh my gosh.
00:56:17
Felicia Devine
ah
00:56:19
Natalie Richards
And I was like so not okay after that.
00:56:19
Felicia Devine
Wow.
00:56:22
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
00:56:22
Felicia Devine
No, this was at like 5 o'clock at night, and then Natalie's journey kind of went downhill.
00:56:25
Natalie Richards
Yeah. I was okay. But then like, oh, and then we did Everest after that too.
00:56:31
Felicia Devine
Right.
00:56:32
Natalie Richards
So then we did a roller coaster and I already had a, then we got coffee at five o'clock and I was like, I got on Everest roller coaster and I was like, ooh, like my neck is not feeling good.
00:56:33
Felicia Devine
No, then we got coffee.
00:56:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:56:45
Natalie Richards
I'm like, oh, okay. I'm just like really tight.
00:56:46
Felicia Devine
You know, when you feel your atlas is like out and it makes you so nauseous.
00:56:48
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. That's exactly, exactly what it was.
00:56:51
Felicia Devine
Yeah. hu
00:56:52
Natalie Richards
And did that roller coaster. That certainly didn't help. And I was like, okay. I'm like, okay, this is fine. I'm tight. My atlas is out.
00:57:02
Natalie Richards
Like, I can handle it.
00:57:03
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:57:03
Natalie Richards
It's fine.
00:57:04
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:57:04
Natalie Richards
Whatever. Okay. um I'll survive. right
00:57:07
Felicia Devine
You wrote it in the first group. So it was like the whole group, you, Dan, Kyle, like everyone went and Quincy's dad, Anita and I stayed back with kids.
00:57:10
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:57:19
Natalie Richards
Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:57:20
Felicia Devine
Because I had back pain and headache.
00:57:21
Natalie Richards
Yes.
00:57:22
Felicia Devine
Anita had broken bones.
00:57:22
Natalie Richards
yes
00:57:23
Felicia Devine
And then Quincy's dad, I think, just was with Carson.
00:57:25
Natalie Richards
He just wasn't interested in riding it.
00:57:27
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And oh my gosh. When you guys got back, you're like, oh, you have to go. So Anita and I were like, OK, we'll go.
00:57:34
Natalie Richards
And it's so good. I love a roller coaster.
00:57:36
Felicia Devine
It was so good. But Anita has broken bones. I was bracing myself because my back was in so much pain.
00:57:41
Natalie Richards
Not doing Okay.
00:57:44
Felicia Devine
If we get off that ride, first off, Natalie was like ah sick. You were like motion sick.
00:57:49
Natalie Richards
i what I was like, okay, I'm just not feeling all that great.
00:57:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
00:57:53
Natalie Richards
Let's get back to the car. Let's get the heck out of here.
00:57:56
Felicia Devine
Dan was like, don't look at me. Don't talk to me.
00:57:58
Natalie Richards
know Dan was not actually not okay. Dan was about to throw up, I think, the entire walk out of the park.
00:58:01
Felicia Devine
no.
00:58:04
Felicia Devine
So when when your mom and I went on the ride, he like left with Sepp to go walking because he needed to like move and get fresh air.
00:58:08
Natalie Richards
He did. He had to walk it off.
00:58:13
Felicia Devine
I get back. I'm like, oh, it was so fun. But like, how do you feel? And he was like, don't look at me.
00:58:17
Natalie Richards
Don't look at me. Don't talk to me.
00:58:18
Felicia Devine
Don't talk to me. I'm like, oh, we're not good.
00:58:19
Natalie Richards
That's right. Dan was so not doing okay.
00:58:21
Felicia Devine
You're so not good. So that's when we were like, okay, we should leave as a team.
00:58:22
Natalie Richards
Oh my gosh.
00:58:26
Natalie Richards
Like we are too old for this.
00:58:26
Felicia Devine
The team should leave.
00:58:28
Natalie Richards
Also, we
00:58:28
Felicia Devine
But we had to stop.
Post-Disney Anecdotes
00:58:29
Natalie Richards
stayed, we did stay until the park closed.
00:58:31
Felicia Devine
They closed. Yeah. So it was like dark out. We stopped at a gift shop and we each got the kids a gift.
00:58:33
Natalie Richards
o Oh yeah. Yep.
00:58:38
Felicia Devine
But then i was like, ooh, I'll get my niece and my nephew a gift. My niece is like one and a half and she loves Moana. I didn't tell you this yet. Natalie, this is such a fellatio move.
00:58:50
Natalie Richards
Oh my God.
00:58:51
Felicia Devine
Okay. We walk in this gift shop. Dan's sick as a dog. So I'm like, okay, I'm on a mission. I'm not like browsing. I'm like, I see the princess wall. I'm like, okay, I'm going to get her a princess stuffed animal Moana. Grab her. I go, I see Pluto.
00:59:04
Felicia Devine
um My nephew loves dogs. Grab him. Okay. Check out. I got Seppi a Simba. We go to the car.
00:59:10
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
00:59:11
Felicia Devine
We, okay. A week goes by.
00:59:13
Natalie Richards
Oh, Sepp and his Simba. So cute.
00:59:14
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So he loved it. A week goes by. I'm packing now for Arizona. I open the bag. I take out Moana and I'm looking at her and I'm like, oh my god why does she look so old? why she look like so modest? I'm looking at her like, I just don't recall Moana looking like this.
00:59:29
Felicia Devine
I look at the tag. It's Encanto Mirabel.
00:59:36
Natalie Richards
Maybe she'll like that movie too.
00:59:38
Felicia Devine
was like, this is hysterical. My whole Christmas gift was planned around Moana for her.
00:59:42
Natalie Richards
That's so funny.
00:59:44
Felicia Devine
So I ended up getting her like half Moana, half Encanto. It was just like, I'm like, Daphne, you're going to think this is Moana for a while until you know what Encanto is.
00:59:56
Felicia Devine
But I was dying. i was like, they look the same on the shelf.
00:59:57
Natalie Richards
That's great. They do Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:02
Felicia Devine
But Encanto is way more covered.
01:00:03
Natalie Richards
The clothing is a little different.
01:00:07
Felicia Devine
just like I spent a lot of money on the wrong doll anyway yeah so we we get our gifts the kid your boys got stuff um and we go and we just say peace out we're gonna do separate dinners because it was late so how did your how did your car experience go Natalie tell us how yours was
01:00:07
Natalie Richards
That's so funny. That's amazing.
01:00:14
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:20
Natalie Richards
Yep. Yep. It was. oh my gosh. yes
01:00:26
Natalie Richards
Okay. So we're getting out of the parking lot. I am like, okay, I'm going to order pizza on my phone to like go pick up somewhere. So I found this like New York pizza place.
01:00:38
Natalie Richards
And I'm like doing it on my phone as we're driving and I'm like, oh boy, I need to like, I have a headache. I'm sitting here. I'm like, no, please. Everybody needs to just shut up truthfully.
01:00:48
Felicia Devine
Don't talk.
01:00:49
Natalie Richards
Like, please.
01:00:49
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
01:00:50
Natalie Richards
um I'm not saying this, but like I'm in the front seat.
01:00:53
Felicia Devine
Right.
01:00:54
Natalie Richards
I'm like, I'm not okay, but I'm going to be okay.
01:00:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
01:00:57
Natalie Richards
going to force myself to be okay.
01:00:58
Felicia Devine
Yep. Yep. Right.
01:01:00
Natalie Richards
Ordering pizza. Let's get it done. Then I can put my phone down.
01:01:03
Felicia Devine
Right.
01:01:03
Natalie Richards
Everything was going to be great, except we got stuck in traffic and
01:01:07
Felicia Devine
It's supposed to be 20 minute ride.
01:01:07
Natalie Richards
For some reason, yes. um
01:01:11
Felicia Devine
We're in standstill.
01:01:11
Natalie Richards
It was so bad. so I'm sitting there.
01:01:13
Felicia Devine
Stop, go, stop, go.
01:01:14
Natalie Richards
I'm like, oh my God, my head is ridiculous. Like i'm I can just feel everything tightening. like, my God, I need an adjustment so bad. And get to pick up the pizza.
01:01:28
Natalie Richards
I'm like, I'm getting out. i have to I'm going to go pick it up because I had to get out and move myself. Yeah.
01:01:33
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
01:01:34
Natalie Richards
i pick I get the pizza, I pick it up, and it has like hot air kind seeping out of the boxes. and I'm like, oh my God.
01:01:42
Felicia Devine
You're like, I can't even touch this.
01:01:43
Natalie Richards
Oh my God. Get this. so I get in the car. I'm like, somebody take this pizza from me. like I'm going to lose my mind.
01:01:48
Felicia Devine
Yes. Yes.
01:01:51
Natalie Richards
We get out of the parking lot and we're like merging onto the highway. Like my dad's going pretty fast. I go, I'm going to throw up. I'm going to throw up. It's going to happen.
01:01:59
Felicia Devine
Oh.
01:02:00
Natalie Richards
And I roll down the window and I like throw up as he's, as he's like it's going so fast.
01:02:05
Felicia Devine
Literally going 70 miles an hour.
01:02:07
Natalie Richards
Most of it made, i'd say 95% of it made it outside the car, but a little like ended up in the window. It was so bad.
01:02:17
Felicia Devine
Let me give let me give a little analogy for our followers, our listeners. um You know when you go to the car wash and they spray super foam on your car and it coats every square inch and it's like um a power washer but foam?
01:02:21
Natalie Richards
Please, please.
01:02:32
Felicia Devine
This is what the side of Natalie's car looked like. They had a stretch Grand Wagoneer, okay? This thing 40 feet long
01:02:42
Natalie Richards
So long and it trailed the whole side of the car.
01:02:43
Felicia Devine
inhu The whole side of the car was coated Natalie's vomit.
01:02:50
Natalie Richards
It was so bad. I felt so horrible.
01:02:52
Felicia Devine
It was crazy.
01:02:54
Natalie Richards
But then after that, I was like, okay, I'm good.
01:02:56
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And then you could just like move on.
01:02:57
Natalie Richards
Good to go. Fine. Yep.
01:02:58
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
01:02:58
Natalie Richards
Moved on with my life.
01:02:59
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
01:03:00
Natalie Richards
Oh my gosh. That was horrible.
01:03:02
Felicia Devine
That was wild. Our car ride was equally as miserable, less biohazard.
01:03:03
Natalie Richards
Horrible. Yours was equally terrible. Less
01:03:09
Natalie Richards
le by blazz vomit
01:03:11
Felicia Devine
So we're in the car and Natalie and I had decided we're like, we're going to do separate things for pizza. But like I was looking at pizza places and I saw on our search that there was like a mod pizza. And I love mod pizza.
01:03:23
Felicia Devine
It's just like so good to me. I don't know why.
01:03:25
Natalie Richards
Yeah, I like it.
01:03:25
Felicia Devine
It's like, oh, delicious.
01:03:25
Natalie Richards
It's good. You can create your own.
01:03:27
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
01:03:27
Natalie Richards
It's great.
01:03:28
Felicia Devine
And they're like miniature.
01:03:29
Natalie Richards
he
01:03:29
Felicia Devine
I love it. Good crust. So I see a mod pizza and i'm and Dan's like, all right, find one, like close the hotel. And I'm like, Dan, I don't know how to do that. He's like, look at the hotel, then like try and find. I'm like, that's really hard.
01:03:40
Felicia Devine
Geographically, I'm so challenged. So I'm like, okay, I think I did it. i did it. i did it. So I go to mod pizza, the one that's like close to the hotel. I type in our order, order it, whatever. put it in the GPS, but we're in the stop and go traffic. And we finally get off the highway and it's like another 10 minutes down this road. And Dan's like, we are so far from the hotel. I'm like, no, it's the one close to the hotel. And he's like, Felicia, we still another like 30 minutes back to the hotel. I'm like, what do you mean?
01:04:08
Felicia Devine
Natalie, all in all, this took over an hour. Over an hour, we show up at this mod pizza.
01:04:12
Natalie Richards
Oh.
01:04:15
Felicia Devine
Dan goes in to get the order. Not the right mod pizza. I'm like, you're kidding me.
01:04:20
Natalie Richards
It's so comical.
01:04:23
Felicia Devine
You're kidding. Type in another mod pizza. That's close to the hotel.
01:04:28
Natalie Richards
Oh my gosh.
01:04:28
Felicia Devine
So I did order it from the close to the hotel one. But when I put it in the GPS, I took us to a completely different town.
01:04:32
Natalie Richards
But you navigated to the wrong place.
01:04:36
Natalie Richards
Oh God.
01:04:37
Felicia Devine
And Dan was so ill and he's the one driving. So like there was no conversation.
01:04:39
Natalie Richards
Yes, he was so not okay.
01:04:41
Felicia Devine
We are not talking.
01:04:42
Natalie Richards
Mm-mm.
01:04:42
Felicia Devine
Giuseppe was so tearful because he was so tired.
01:04:44
Natalie Richards
Oh.
01:04:45
Felicia Devine
He ends up passing out in the car. We get to our pizza. We're 30 minutes late to our pizza. It's cold.
01:04:50
Natalie Richards
Oh.
01:04:51
Felicia Devine
I pick it up. We go back to the hotel. Like it was just like, what a rough end to a magical day.
01:04:57
Natalie Richards
It's so true.
01:04:58
Felicia Devine
But oh, what a great trip.
01:04:58
Natalie Richards
But my goodness, we made it. And to have 13 people with three kids under three, like it was so good.
01:05:03
Felicia Devine
ah And we all got along. The kids did great. Lovely.
01:05:08
Natalie Richards
It was so good.
01:05:09
Felicia Devine
Would do again.
01:05:10
Natalie Richards
Absolutely. Absolutely.
01:05:11
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
01:05:11
Natalie Richards
Absolutely. In like four or five years.
01:05:12
Felicia Devine
Yeah. ah
01:05:15
Natalie Richards
I don't think I can do it. Maybe three. Maybe like three years.
01:05:19
Felicia Devine
Wait. Okay. We have gone an hour already, but I had to talk about, I took a leash.
01:05:22
Natalie Richards
I know. Oh, yes. Oh, my gosh.
01:05:26
Felicia Devine
Oh, I loved it.
01:05:27
Natalie Richards
The leash. The leash worked well for you.
01:05:28
Felicia Devine
The leash. Yeah. Giuseppe was the perfect leash age.
01:05:30
Natalie Richards
Kyle was like, no.
01:05:33
Felicia Devine
Jean, Jean's a little old for a leash because Jean can communicate with you and
01:05:33
Natalie Richards
Giuseppe was perfect. Yeah. Yes.
Disney Trip Reflections
01:05:39
Felicia Devine
you can say, Jean, you're going to stay with us.
01:05:40
Natalie Richards
And he, Gene on a leash would be like a rabid dog on a leash where he'd be like, oh, I can pull on this.
01:05:45
Felicia Devine
Yeah. It would be like, yeah.
01:05:48
Natalie Richards
Cool.
01:05:48
Felicia Devine
Yes. Or like, let me twist around your ankles and trip you.
01:05:49
Natalie Richards
Let me have a game. Yeah. Mm hmm. Mm
01:05:52
Felicia Devine
Giuseppe's at the age where He wants to walk. He wants to look. He doesn't want to go too far.
01:05:59
Natalie Richards
hmm.
01:05:59
Felicia Devine
But I need to have like a grasp on him because there are a lot of tripping points, falling points, water points, grates.
01:06:05
Natalie Richards
Yes.
01:06:08
Natalie Richards
I
01:06:08
Felicia Devine
And like it just there's a lot of like hazards for an 18 month old.
01:06:13
Natalie Richards
think it's so funny that you put him on a leash.
01:06:17
Felicia Devine
So he was so joyous in line for things.
01:06:18
Natalie Richards
But you thrived with It it was great.
01:06:20
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And I would set him down in line and he could like play with the railing. He could look around, but I wasn't afraid he was going to go under and get eaten by a tiger. i wasn't afraid he was going to go under it and fall through a grate because I had him on a leash and he loved it.
01:06:28
Natalie Richards
Right.
01:06:33
Felicia Devine
And he loved his leash.
01:06:34
Natalie Richards
It's so great.
01:06:34
Felicia Devine
He just loved wearing it.
01:06:35
Natalie Richards
He actually loved it.
01:06:37
Felicia Devine
He loved it.
01:06:37
Natalie Richards
He he was into it.
01:06:39
Felicia Devine
He was into it and it was so cute.
01:06:39
Natalie Richards
And that was so funny.
01:06:41
Felicia Devine
So I used it at Disney for Magic Kingdom. I used it at Animal Kingdom and then used it in the airport. Lovely. Lovely.
01:06:51
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
01:06:51
Felicia Devine
He loved it.
01:06:52
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
01:06:53
Felicia Devine
Yeah. So I would use it again.
01:06:53
Natalie Richards
I love that for you.
01:06:54
Felicia Devine
i would use it again and until he has the conscious like where being of like, or whereabouts of like space.
01:06:55
Natalie Richards
I love that for you.
01:07:00
Natalie Richards
Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:02
Felicia Devine
But like until then I'll use it again.
01:07:04
Natalie Richards
I love that for you.
01:07:05
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And people stared at me and I was just, I was smiling ear to ear.
01:07:06
Natalie Richards
If anybody, yes, they did. no you were thriving.
01:07:10
Felicia Devine
You could, you couldn't have told me otherwise. Somebody could have come up to me and been like, that's child abuse.
01:07:12
Natalie Richards
Yeah.
01:07:14
Felicia Devine
And I would literally have been like, mind your business. We are thriving. Because I tell you what, I also had people staring at me being like, darn, I wish I had that. Like you could tell. They looked at me and they're like, oh, that looks lovely.
01:07:24
Natalie Richards
Yeah. It's not that bad of idea.
01:07:27
Felicia Devine
man
01:07:28
Natalie Richards
When there's that many people in one area, it does kind of make sense.
01:07:28
Felicia Devine
No.
01:07:31
Felicia Devine
yeah I saw zero other kids with a leash both days at Disney.
01:07:35
Natalie Richards
I know, zero, zero.
01:07:36
Felicia Devine
Zero.
01:07:36
Natalie Richards
I think it truly has become so culturally shamed.
01:07:42
Felicia Devine
Shamed. Oh, but when you saw me I was thriving, like we loved the leash.
01:07:48
Natalie Richards
Yeah. I know.
01:07:50
Felicia Devine
i' I'm sure we, I'm sure we changed some people's minds when they saw us.
01:07:54
Natalie Richards
Maybe so.
01:07:54
Felicia Devine
I'm sure we also re reinstalled that like leashes are crazy, but some people looked at us and I could tell they were like, that's a really good idea.
01:07:55
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
01:08:03
Natalie Richards
I think it's a pure like you do you moment. Like if you feel like you need to do that to make you feel good, go for it.
01:08:06
Felicia Devine
Yeah. And I wasn't dragging him around. He wasn't dragging me around.
01:08:11
Natalie Richards
Yeah. And he was happy.
01:08:11
Felicia Devine
it was as symbiotic experience.
01:08:13
Natalie Richards
he was happy. You didn't have to force him to like be held.
01:08:15
Felicia Devine
We loved it. Mm-mm.
01:08:17
Natalie Richards
You didn't have to force him in the stroller. You didn't have to chase after him.
01:08:20
Felicia Devine
Mm-mm. It was lovely.
01:08:20
Natalie Richards
I get it. I totally get it. it was It was enjoyable. So we had an extremely enjoyable Disney experience with 13 people with three kids
01:08:24
Felicia Devine
It was lovely. I would do it again.
01:08:29
Felicia Devine
Yes.
01:08:32
Felicia Devine
Yes.
01:08:32
Natalie Richards
three and under, that was like to come out of that trip and say, wow, that was alive.
01:08:33
Felicia Devine
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Alive.
01:08:38
Natalie Richards
Yes. But like we loved every second of it. It was so good.
01:08:43
Felicia Devine
It was so good.
01:08:44
Natalie Richards
So it was great.
01:08:44
Felicia Devine
So good job, Natalie. Great planning. Thank you for hosting. it was lovely. i would, I would say yes to coming again.
01:08:48
Natalie Richards
Kind of for the most part. Okay. Well, Danny might not. but no
01:08:54
Felicia Devine
Dan will have to be on communication moving forward because he just, he doesn't do well with like not knowing the plan.
01:08:56
Natalie Richards
Yes, that's fine.
01:09:00
Natalie Richards
No, that's fair enough.
01:09:01
Felicia Devine
Whereas like I could have, I could have never asked and just, I just could have showed up.
01:09:02
Natalie Richards
I wouldn't either. wouldn't either. Yeah. Yep. I wouldn't either.
01:09:07
Felicia Devine
Yeah.
01:09:08
Natalie Richards
there and like I said, typically yeah it would go off without a hitch.
01:09:17
Felicia Devine
Oh my gosh.
01:09:18
Natalie Richards
But there were just, you know.
01:09:18
Felicia Devine
All right. Well, well, that's it for episode one of season two.
01:09:19
Natalie Richards
Yes. Yeah.
01:09:23
Natalie Richards
yes
01:09:24
Felicia Devine
Thank you for joining us. We'll have more stories of the gap between season one and season two of what we've been up to.
01:09:30
Natalie Richards
yeah
01:09:30
Felicia Devine
Um, if you have any, uh, requests of things you want us to talk about, let us know.
01:09:34
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We never talked about my hat.
01:09:38
Felicia Devine
Oh my God. Tell us about your hat, Natalie. It is so cute.
01:09:40
Natalie Richards
but We have like one minute. My hat is something that my husband got me and it says, my husband will kill you. And he would.
01:09:48
Felicia Devine
And it's so on par. Kyle is, is you don't mess a Kyle.
01:09:52
Natalie Richards
And he would. Mm-hmm. So if anybody was curious what it said, my husband will kill you.
01:09:54
Felicia Devine
You don't. Oh my God. My husband will kill you.
01:09:57
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
01:09:57
Felicia Devine
It's so cute. And and it's like a trucker hat with stitching.
01:09:58
Natalie Richards
Mm-hmm.
01:10:00
Natalie Richards
Yep.
01:10:01
Felicia Devine
I love it.
01:10:02
Natalie Richards
Yep. saw it and he was like, my wife needs that.
01:10:05
Felicia Devine
And he said, you need this for the podcast. He said that.
01:10:07
Natalie Richards
Yeah, I know. It was so cute.
01:10:09
Felicia Devine
Oh, that's a supportive husband.
01:10:09
Natalie Richards
was like, I do need that for the podcast. And I had actually seen it online and he didn't know i had seen it.
01:10:12
Felicia Devine
I love it. oh
01:10:15
Natalie Richards
And I was like, oh, I really like that hat.
01:10:15
Felicia Devine
really...
01:10:16
Natalie Richards
But like, do I buy that for myself? No.
01:10:18
Felicia Devine
Right, right. No, your husband has to buy it for you.
01:10:19
Natalie Richards
No. Right.
01:10:21
Felicia Devine
i love it! Okay.
01:10:22
Natalie Richards
I know. it's So cute. Okay.
01:10:23
Felicia Devine
All right. Bye!
01:10:23
Natalie Richards
Bye.