 Hey y'all this is Mitch Mitchell. I'm in another hotel room but actually you've missed a couple of hotel rooms or at least another hotel room so I'm traveling and this is an interesting time period because last week I left home which is Syracuse, New York area to go to Orlando, Florida for a wedding of my niece Allie Thomas who's now Allie Reeves and her fiance now husband Joshua Reeves and it was a great time it was a wonderful wedding the bride who's beautiful this guy looks great you know I don't usually say that a lot about guys but he just looks great I wouldn't mind you know the body and you know I'm what are you gonna say but it was a fun time I've had a great time in Orlando and then we went to the next day I went with her sister my niece Crystal to Universal Studios to take that tour because I wanted to say the Harry Potter stuff you know in past years and decades everyone went there to go to Disney but you know what I'm a Harry Potter guy so we went there and it was eight hours of thrills and torture at the same time because we walked a lot it turns out when we first got there they have a train that goes through two different theme parks that they built for Harry Potter and the train was down so we ate in the leaky cauldron of all things we had breakfast there and it got you know the cauldron which has this big crack in it that's why it's leaky it makes a lot of sense and we had breakfast there and I had some ice cream early on it it's probably the smoothest ice cream I've ever had in my life but all the ice cream was based off of vanilla then they put that little flavor thing on the side so you know it was basically just some vanilla ice cream and I didn't need all of either one of them it was very good but you know I knew I had other stuff to do went into the one shop I'll Evander saw that Crystal talked to me into getting on the mummy ride if you don't like roller coasters or things like that do not do the mummy ride I didn't like it I kept my eyes closed for almost the entire thing and then when it was over I had trouble walking I'll admit it you know what I don't like roller coasters and last time I'd been on anything like that was for my 30th birthday 25 years ago so I didn't like that but I did like the Hogwarts train if you ever get there and you get a chance to take the train you've got to take the train both ways but one of things you have to get used to in resort towns which I didn't expect to actually there's two things one the wait times are amazing I mean even for this mummy thing it was basically 30 minutes we don't just stand in the long line outside what they do is you finally get inside but then they wind everything around so it's it's just something else you just it's hard to compare the last time I'd been in any kind of amusement park like this and I don't count the state fair as an amusement park was 1968 so you know I wasn't prepared for any of this and you're going to walk a lot regardless I got to go through the Simpsons thing and I got to go through Dr. Seuss and we didn't get to the minions because it was 65 minutes to get in I wouldn't wait 65 minutes for that we got into this twister thing where you know I thought that we would actually feel what a hundred mile winds feel like instead it was kind of like an exhibit based on a twister movie you don't really think about it the way you know I didn't necessarily think of the types of movies or all the movies that universal is made over the years for instance they had a men in black thing and you know I didn't pay any attention to that they had Terminator they had the Transformers movies I just have never really paid all that much attention to that stuff but like I said we were there eight hours and we walked a ton I even saw this thing that was supposed to be based off of some movie called the Lost Continent that I never heard of and it was magnificent from the outside but it was a restaurant that was kind of funny seeing things that were restaurants so that was the first thing the second thing was getting used to costs it was $17 just the park and then you had to walk a mile before you could get to the park that was interesting it cost $136 for a pass to get in for the day for the two things and for kids is $130 big savings right and it's amazing how much stuff cost for kids to get a wand you know what if you're a parent of three kids and they all want one you're spending 150 bucks because each wand was 50 bucks yeah Mitchell wasn't buying a wand matter of fact there were some shirts I thought you know it'd be kind of neat to buy a shirt but they started at $35 wasn't doing it oh and by the way they had Popeye there and they had Scooby-Doo there and Betty Boop and a Lucy tribute you know it was just tons and tons of things we had lunch at a place pizza slices were seven bucks a piece oh my god they were huge but it was still seven bucks a piece and even that was a long line and had two long lines so you can go in from different ways that took 20 minutes just to wait in line to get slices of pizza man but it was fun and if anyone who recognizes the dragon if you know anything about Harry Potter they actually have a thing of Green God's back bank and they had this giant dragon on top of it and periodically the bad boy would spit out some fire and you've just filled this burst of heat and it was the coolest thing I gotta tell you that was kind of cool but overall I couldn't see me going again I can't see that as a matter of fact it's funny that I left Orlando saying well that was it I'm never coming back I can't see any reason why I'd ever come back until I get to San Diego and this morning's board meeting because that was more pleasure this is actually more business and I'm on a business break right now and the reason I decided to do a video now is because if I waited till I got home I didn't know how long this video was gonna go and I didn't want to do that but I go down to the business meeting this morning because I'm having to be a national board member and I sit down and I'm looking at the thing it turns out next year's conference is in Orlando are you kidding me so supposedly I'm supposed to go in January and then again in October we'll see if that happens so anyway it's been interesting you know I stayed at a place called the Hilton Grand Vacation Club in Orlando and one of the things I didn't realize is that there's a difference between hotels and these villas and I you know cuz mine was a Hilton man I'm a Hilton member so I used my points to get it thinking I was just gonna end up with this hotel room I ended up with a sweet this gigantic sweet that had a whirlpool tub in it this thing was massive and what was funny is that every day I was there for what Thursday through Tuesday and I put the thing on the door so that I wasn't disturbed except for one day for the days I wasn't disturbed they left these gigantic bags that were filled with towels and coffee I had three of those by the time I left I thought that they would take care of it when I came in you know I haven't cleaned the room on Sunday and I thought they would just take their bags nope they left it all there so what are you gonna do but it was fun and where the wedding was and where my friends all stayed at was something called the Westgate Vacation Villas and all of those were pretty big too by the way I had a balcony but I was on the sixth floor there was no screen that's the one going out there my friends had a balcony they were on the seventh floor of where they were and they were all screened in so they let the kids go out there and throw the ball which worked out fine but it's amazing these gigantic communities of what you would think were just condos or big apartments and these are actually time-shares and one of the funny things is that when I flew in from home to Orlando I hadn't slept in over 30 hours because my friend had to get me to the airport by 4.15 in the morning and so my mind said well why go to bed I'll just stay up and then I stayed up and stayed up and whatever so when the guy first mentioned time-shared to me when I got here I had no idea what he's talking about my mind couldn't process it and it took me a bit to process it so people buy this time to go stay in these things and they're relatively cheap compared to how much everything else costs this is like a hundred and twenty dollars a night are you kidding a hundred twenty dollars a night to stay in something this massive it's just outstanding I mean that's amazing but that's just to stay everything else Orlando expensive the gas isn't as expensive as it is in New York that everything else is just deep and I don't mean just at the hotels so if you go to a place like Orlando you have to get used to that now I'm in San Diego and what this involved is a trip to Atlanta first and then flying little round four hours little more than four hours from Atlanta to San Diego and of course you have the time change thing in there and one of the first things I learned is that they don't have a lot of Chinese or Japanese restaurants downtown it's nothing there's no Chinese because I asked at the concierge desk no Chinese and only two Japanese restaurants they have aren't true Japanese their fusion Asian fusion and all they serve a sushi come on really and the other three restaurants are Thai I don't eat Thai food I've tried it I've tried it I don't like it so they had Mexican and they have Italian and they have Irish and I decided last night because I knew the deep dinner I went to an Irish restaurant and I ordered the shepherd's pie because I always order the shepherd's pie and it was delicious I can't you know I'm not gonna lie it was delicious but it was probably a little heavy for me a little bit more carbs or it maybe it was the jeer deli ice cream shop where I went in and had a three scoop ice cream sundae with peanut butter and chocolate sauce hey you know that's what we do you know I figured that's the one day I'm gonna kind of throw it up throw everything in there and just eat what I want to eat and it was a lot of fun but I went to bed at home it would have been 1 a.m. so I guess that's not really early here it was 10 o'clock and I just had to go to sleep I was just exhausted sometimes you have to go with it especially when you're you've reached the age I'm at now and I'm staying in a place called the Manchester Grand Hyatt and I'm really close to the airport but I'm also close to the bay close to the ocean and on the way here I passed the midway this gigantic aircraft carrier that I said well wait a minute wasn't that sunk during you know World War two and it was but they built another one which I didn't know that and then they decommissioned it and it's stationed right out there I mean I can see it from my room it's amazing and I hope to get over there to get some regular pictures of it but you know I wanted to put this one out really quick because I've had a blast so far in this travel and some people say oh you need such a glamorous life well not really you know yes I've been traveling out of town to work but I've been going to the same city for almost 18 months so that's not really glamorous after a while if it had been New York City I might have said that was glamorous but you know and you know I can tell you now I'm in Memphis and I've only got a couple more weeks there and then it's back home for a while and we'll figure out what we do after that but I wanted to get this one out there because who knows what I may have to say tomorrow or Friday or Saturday although I get to go home Friday but I won't get in until close to midnight once again and then we turn it back around and we hit the airport again next Monday I'm a rambling man anyway oh by the way I'm gonna give you a hint I hope you've made it this far a lesson I had to learn last night do not put Kansas soda or probably cans of beer or anything else in your bags if you're going to fly that's all I'm saying that's all I'm saying lesson learned anyway this is Mitch Mitchell I hope y'all have a great day and hope you like the video let me know you take care