Beyond Brave
Meet Kyla and Lyle Thomson, co-hosts of Beyond Brave. As parents to Bella Brave, who inspired the world with her courage, they spent over a decade navigating her rare medical challenges. Together, they've channeled their experiences into helping others find resilience and healing. On Beyond Brave, Kyla and Lyle share stories of hope, love, and the lessons they've learned—both through Bella's journey and in their everyday family life. Join them as they honor Bella’s legacy and inspire others to find light even in the darkest moments.
Beyond Brave
#012 - Signs from Bella, Superbowl Surprises, and a Disneyland Recap!
In this week’s episode of Beyond Brave, we decided to give you a bit of a primer for the big game! We dive into everything from Superbowl stats, to peculiar bets that keeps everyone guessing, like predicting the national anthem’s length, If Drake will drop a new diss track, and the Gatorade color (who knew these things could be so suspenseful?).
We then take you on a heartfelt journey through our recent trip to California, where Disneyland gave us more than just magical memories—it brought emotional moments and surprising signs from our daughter, Bella. From Waylon's unexpected reactions to the trip to a moving encounter with a Disney artist, the adventures are full of surprises.
Plus, we're sharing the scoop on the parks we visited, with insider tips and reviews that will have you planning your own future Disney getaway. Tune in for a mix of lighthearted fun and deeply meaningful reflections, with a dose of growth along the way.
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Beyond Brave Ep 12 (1)
Kyla: [00:00:00] Welcome to beyond brave. I'm Kyla, and here's where we dive into stories of hope. Bravery and laughter. Millions followed our journey with my daughter, Bella. But now it's time to go beyond the headlines and highlight reels to those raw, real moments I haven't shared anywhere else. So are you ready to go beyond brave?
Let's dive in.
Bella: But if you want it to be perfect, you can make it perfect.
Kyla: Welcome Bravelings back to Beyond Brave. Lal and I are here as your hosts. Happy to chat with you again and fill you in on recent events. Also today we have Super Bowl surprises, recent events, our trip to California, which we will be doing a parks review of four different parks that we visited there, as well as Bella Memories and specifically.
Disneyland memories with Bella.
Lyle: No matter how much we prep, there's always something funny with my [00:01:00] microphone. I'm sorry. There we go. I'm good to go.
Kyla: Welcome to the show. Here we go. Let's start. Oh, was that my watch? That
Lyle: was your phone.
Kyla: Oh, I thought I silenced it. Hold on, I'll silence this now.
Lyle: Do you want to start over again?
Kyla: No, we don't have to start over. This is fine. This is real life. I like real life.
Lyle: Does Denny keep it in or not?
Kyla: Denny can keep this in Denny. It's okay. Everyone can watch me struggle with my, uh, Apple watch. Or listen to you struggle with it. That's okay. I'll do it. I'm really excited about these Super Bowl surprises you, uh, have.
I didn't read our show notes yet, so I have no idea what surprise is coming.
Lyle: Well, you're gonna surprise me with what you have too, then.
Kyla: Oh, okay. What is
Lyle: it?
Kyla: No, we've discussed, like, the Parks review and fellow memories and whatnot. But first, okay, first, update. I need like an intro theme song for that. I have a gupdate.
And if you're new here, I have facilitated a guppy fry birth from the four adult guppies that I have [00:02:00] one being male for sure three possibly female but regardless we have six babies and
Lyle: and two fish tanks now
Kyla: and two fish tanks now so we I'm happy they're big enough now like they're almost two centimeters long.
Because now I can actually clean their tank.
Lyle (2): The little guys,
Kyla: the little guys. Cause I was like, Oh my goodness, how am I going to get them out of here? I can't tell between them and like a speck of dirt in the tank.
Lyle: And how big are the adults?
Kyla: Oh, the adults are like an over an inch, maybe a centimeter wide, tall, and like an inch.
Lyle: Now, is it true? If we had a bigger tank, they would get bigger, like a goldfish, or is that only a goldfish?
Kyla: I don't know. We should ask the audience. I mean, they're guppies. I don't think they're meant to get big.
Lyle: Okay.
Kyla: Like, you don't see, like, like goldfish. There's, like, koi, which are, like, massive, but guppies, I don't think there's, like, large guppies.
I don't
Lyle: want a koi pond.
Kyla: No, I would. I would love one. Anyways, okay, so I don't think
Lyle: they do too well right now. I think it's a minus 30 outside.
Kyla: Oh, yeah, no, no, you'd have to bring them in any Canadian that has koi fish has to bring them in over the winter. [00:03:00] So I we recently got back from a trip to Disneyland, which we will get into very, very soon.
But I was happy that I could clean both tanks. Our four adults are still alive. So that's Pearl, stinky and dirty.
Lyle: I thought dirty.
Kyla: No. Okay. Also, also on the surprise list today. I thought dirty died.
Lyle (2): Yeah,
Kyla: and dirty did not die. Um, dirty was weird. She was like, I'm pretty sure she's a female because she's like boring.
She's not bright like squirt squirts bright and orange. Okay, we're gonna get into the guppy fry name soon. But we already
Lyle: have ones. Probably that ones is enough.
Kyla: Oh, yeah. I just I wanted everyone to confirm that we I wanted to confirm with everyone. We have six baby guppies. For a while, I didn't know if I had three, four, seven, it is six, and I named them after fries, but back to, back to dirty, she was like, her head was down, like, usually with [00:04:00] dead fish, you think they just float upside down, but her head was like, down between the rocks and the glass, and then her fin was like, her tail was straight up, and I'm like, are you dead?
And then I took my little net, and I moved the rocks away from her, and she was like, and then she springs up, and she hides in the little cave that I have in her bowl. She's
Lyle (2): sleeping.
Kyla: It was morning. They usually just sleep at night when they're like still and they just sleep at night. I don't know. I thought maybe she was like on her way out, but And she's perky and livey and swimming around the tank today.
So
Lyle: your assumption of how they act when they are dead still holds true, because it wasn't like that.
Kyla: Yeah, she's not dead. She's alive and well. But she
Lyle: didn't appear like you would have expected her to.
Kyla: No, and she must have just been stuck. She must have just been stuck. I'm not gonna lie.
Lyle: Or sleeping.
Kyla: I don't know.
They don't sleep perpendicular. What else have you got on here besides guppies? Hold on, I'm going to tell my gupdate. Guys, people, this is like, I swear, if we did a poll and like, most questions asked, people are like, how are your guppies? Like, I live for the gupdates, Kyla. And I'm like, okay, I'll give you the gupdates.[00:05:00]
Because I have never facilitated a guppy birth before and this recently happened. So I need to continue to share and update people with this. I have named my six gup babies. It is Curly Fry because they're called guppy fries. are the babies. Oh, right. I remember that. So I related them all to fries. And now that I've confirmed that I have six, their names are curly fry, poutine, McCain, waffle, sweet potato, and crinkle.
Lyle: I like it. You should call him crinkle cut.
Kyla: Crinkle could still be crinkle cut. I was going to ask the audience. Also,
Lyle: what was the first one?
Kyla: Curly fry.
Lyle: Do you need the fry at the end? So
Kyla: just curly?
Lyle: Well, because they're already fry at the end of every other one.
Kyla: But when you ask for curly fries, you say, I want some curly fries.
Lyle: How do you want your fries?
Kyla: You don't just say curly.
Lyle: Maybe you're right.
Kyla: Right. Curly fries? I don't know. Anyways, I wanted to ask the audience. What
Lyle: was the American fry? Freedom fries. You should have called one freedom. I didn't
Kyla: know there was freedom. I don't know about freedom.
Lyle: I think it was post 9 11.[00:06:00]
Uh, one of the things restaurants did were they renamed their french fries, uh, freedom fries.
Kyla: Really?
Lyle: Like, hell yeah, let's go.
Kyla: I didn't know that.
Lyle: Yeah. So that's, you could have named one freedom.
Kyla: Well, I was going to ask the audience if they liked my names, if they had a favorite or to comment. A better one if they have a better idea relating to fries a better name for my guppies and I
Lyle: already proposed one
Kyla: freedom.
Okay, freedom
Lyle: But what do you get?
Kyla: I don't know. Um waffle.
Lyle: Uh, waffle's pretty good sweet potato.
Kyla: So I love sweet potato fries
Lyle: Yeah, but
Kyla: I get them at every restaurant I go to
Lyle: okay. Well poutine is like my favorite fry
Kyla: Oh,
Lyle: who
Kyla: doesn't get poutine poutine is made from fries.
Lyle: It's part of the dish
Kyla: cheese and gravy But that has to be on fries
Lyle: I totally disagree.
Kyla: You don't have poutine potatoes, or poutine broccoli. You got poutine fries.
Lyle: Okay. Maybe you're right.
Kyla: They're a form of a fry. All right. A fry dish. Okay, anyways, comment if you guys have better ideas. I [00:07:00] want to hear them. I really do. Lyle's freedom is kind of like, meh.
Lyle: I liked it. You're making fun of, like, a movement.
Kyla: No, I'm not making fun. I'm just thinking of freedom.
Lyle: No, I think our stats are like 30 percent Americans. Listen to this song.
Kyla: Really?
Lyle: Yeah, you're just dumping on them.
Kyla: Sorry, guys. You guys have had a lot going on lately, and I shouldn't do that
Lyle: for freedom,
Kyla: freedom. However, like on tick tock, since the little like short ban, and I've gained like, well, I haven't gained, but I've just been fed much more Canadian content.
We're really funny like Americans are super funny, but we are also very very funny Canadians And I've just been like howling on tick tock more than ever with like the Canadian content Oh,
Lyle: I don't think that's up even up for debate Canadians have always been huge comedians. Yeah
Kyla: That's our history. I guess hey
Lyle: Jim Carrey.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Kyla: Okay. All right.
Lyle: I only named one I'm just like through a [00:08:00] blank
Kyla: No, there's lots of good Canadian stand up comics, too Right? Like, what's that show we watched that's like, last comic standing? Isn't that Canadian? Or isn't there a Canadian version?
Lyle: From like, ten years ago?
Kyla: Isn't Last Comic Standing still on?
Lyle: Yeah. Oh, remember, uh, Debra DiGiovanni?
Kyla: Yes, we saw her in an airport one time! And she came
Lyle: up to you? Yeah! That's so funny. She is a Canadian comedian. Really funny one. Yeah, she is so funny.
Kyla: And I was like, I'm so happy I'm seeing you right now. And she was like, just like on her flight home or something.
She's like, oh, nice to meet you.
Lyle: No, didn't she come up to you?
Kyla: She came up, oh, I was with Bella. And she came up and, um, she commented like, I know Bella and I see her on socials. And she was like, Happy about that. And I was like, I follow you. I love your comedy.
Lyle: Okay, so you found girls over her though.
Kyla: Oh, I did.
Yeah, I fully took over. She approached
Lyle: you.
Kyla: Yeah,
Lyle: yeah, that was really cool. Where was that in Toronto? Oh, I can't remember what airport it would have probably been
Kyla: probably Toronto.
Lyle: Yeah, I think she said she was flying to California because she actually lives in California.
Kyla: Yes. Oh, we could have saw her when we were there.
Maybe.
Lyle: There you go. [00:09:00]
Kyla: Can you had Super Bowl surprises? You don't leave
Lyle: that till end.
Kyla: Oh, that's at the end.
Lyle: Yeah.
Kyla: Oh, I was excited about it for
Lyle: it being okay. Well we can jump into it.
Kyla: Yeah, I thought, I thought it'd be
Lyle: exciting. Okay. Well I thought because I was looking at the analytics on our podcast and it is 90% female.
Shocker. Yeah.
Kyla: Oh no, I am shocked. I thought it'd be like even ke Well, more females listen to podcasts in general.
Lyle: More females listen to this podcast in general.
Kyla: Okay. 'cause I was gonna say like I thought males were more of like the podcast gender.
Lyle: Uh, maybe prob you're probably right, but I will say that.
Your
Kyla: minus algorithm
Lyle: doesn't tend to be very
Kyla: I thought you would help with that. You've been here from day one
Lyle: What am I doing?
Kyla: You're a medical dad. You're a male point of view You're funny. You're man, you're male.
Lyle: I don't even see your clips on my Instagram for sure. You
Kyla: don't even like I still get just like
Lyle: golf reels, football jokes.
And
Kyla: like, isn't [00:10:00] Okay, so let's take the number one podcast in the world. So what is that Joe Rogan?
Lyle: So every male just listens to that. And then and then like, probably listen to that. But also, you know, more probably more niche interests.
Kyla: Yeah, whereas I was just like, I just thought it was like just predominantly males that listen to podcasts in general, but
Lyle: there's probably a higher proportion, but we got 90%.
Anyways, well, it is Super Bowl Sunday, we're going to try to drop this before the Super Bowl. I think we do usually get a lot of listens on Sundays. Yeah, we
Kyla: didn't do this one as a live because we just got back from a vacation. And we kind of like
Lyle: her. So I thought it'd be fun to do like, prep and quiz a little bit of a quiz.
So do you know who's in the Super Bowl this year, Kyle?
Kyla: Taylor's boyfriend.
Lyle: That's why I'm doing this. This is exactly why
Kyla: I know it's the Kansas City Chiefs. I just have I don't know who they're playing.
Lyle: Philadelphia Eagles.
Kyla: Oh, you like the Eagles? No,
Lyle: I don't. I don't really have an affiliation with any team.
Kyla: Or maybe is it [00:11:00] the Seahawks? Oh, the Seahawks you liked?
Lyle: I like any team when they're good. I'm pretty jump around. Yeah, it's awful. I think that's more common now because of fantasy sports. People just like players. And they just cheer for whoever's on their damn fantasy team now.
Kyla: I'm like that with American football, but Canadian, it's like we have our own football team, the Riders.
Obviously we cheer for
Lyle: the Riders. So
Kyla: we cheer for the Riders. But this is American football. Super Bowl.
Lyle: Yeah, it's a big deal. And so, yeah, the Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs. The Birds. Yeah, and this is the third. So if the Chiefs can win to, to, I guess we're dropping on Sunday. So let's say we they win today.
That would be three Super Bowls in a row, which has never been done before. So they've won two in a row if
Kyla: they went on Sunday,
Lyle: if they went on Sunday, that would be their third in a row. Oh, wow, which has never happened before, which is pretty cool.
Kyla: Wait, that's never happened with any team ever
Lyle: in the NFL
Kyla: in the NFL.
Lyle: Yeah, no three piece.
Kyla: Wow,
Lyle: there's been multiple two peats, like I'm sure the Eagles, the Steelers, Patriots, Chiefs, uh, have won two in a row at times. [00:12:00] Yeah, so that's interesting. That's
Kyla: cool that that's like a first. Okay.
Lyle: Yeah, uh, I think this is a rematch. How can you not cheer for the
Kyla: Chiefs then?
Lyle: Two years, so last year the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers.
Yeah. Two years ago, they beat the Eagles in the Super Bowl.
Kyla: Oh, the Eagles are back.
Lyle: So this is a rematch.
Kyla: Oh, this is getting good. Yeah, I'm like not aware of any of this. So this is great.
Lyle: The funny part is my two last Super Bowl picks have been the Eagles and the Niners. So I've lost a bunch of money to Patrick McCombs.
I think a lot of people have I don't know why that against the guy. He's fantastic. He always wins it in the last minute. And so I thought it'd be fun to do some Super Bowl. pics, but not like players and stuff like the fun props.
Kyla: Okay, okay.
Lyle: So the over under for John Baptiste. Do you know who he is? No, he's a singer.
He's like a pianist. He's really good. He's singing the Star Spangled Banner. And the over under is set at 120. 5 seconds. Do you know what an over under is? [00:13:00]
Kyla: You lost me at he's a pianist.
Lyle: He plays the piano. I don't know where you're going.
Kyla: What are you asking me?
Lyle: Well, I was just describing who's singing the Star Spangled Banner.
So do you know what an over under is? No. So it's a type of bet. Will it be above this number? The thing occurring will be above this number or below this number. So say, how many passes will Patrick Mahomes throw? Might be set at 25. 5. It's always an uneven number in between number. So you can't throw 25. 5 passes, right?
Right. You can either throw 26 or 27 or more, or 25 or 24 or less. So you say the over is he'll throw 26 or more. Okay. Or the under is 24 or less. Okay. But this is for the singer and he's 120. 5 seconds. So do you think the Star Spangled Banner will be 121 or more? 120 and less?
Kyla: Like how long he'll sing it for?
Lyle: Yes.
Kyla: Isn't it an anthem?
Lyle: Yeah,
Kyla: it has to start in the beginning. [00:14:00] Why would it go longer than that?
Lyle: Well, you can sing at your own pace.
Kyla: Oh,
Lyle: it's a weird question. No, it's not. What are you not understanding? Walk me through this.
Kyla: If you sing Canada, it's only gonna be, you don't, you don't see it? I can
Lyle: sing it like this.
Oh, Canada. Well, they're not gonna hire someone. Oh, Canada, our own NA band. They're
Kyla: not gonna hire someone for the Super Bowl to sing it. Either one of those ways
Lyle: they're gonna s it on beat. So you're, okay. So you're taking the very remote chance that you're, that it's gonna be. 120. You're not taking over under you're taking the middle.
Kyla: What's the average length of the song?
Lyle: Probably 120. 5 seconds. That's why it's a setup. That's the over under.
Kyla: Okay, then he for how long he'll take to sing it. And I don't know this guy, but he's playing. So maybe if he's playing the he'll have the piano while he sings it.
Lyle: That is another side bet. It's like What are the odds that he'll be playing the piano while singing the anthem?
I don't know what the odds are. I think the odds are, like, if you bet 10 and you said he would [00:15:00] do it, you might get paid out 40 or something. I bet are not good that he would do it.
Kyla: I bet he would be playing the piano.
Lyle: Okay.
Kyla: Okay, and then, if he's a pianist and he's singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, how do you not play the piano for it?
Lyle: Okay, we'll play piano.
Kyla: We'll play piano, and because with, if he is playing the piano, which I think he will be, You'll have a little like doo dee doo before and maybe a little doo dee doo after.
Lyle: Technically, I think they kick it off at the first word that's sung.
Kyla: Oh, okay.
Lyle: And then, uh, the last word that's said.
So there could be outros and intros. They don't count that part.
Kyla: Okay, and you said the average number is 120?
Lyle: Uh huh.
Kyla: Seconds?
Lyle: 120. 5 is the over under. 120.
Kyla: 5 I'm going to go with 123
Lyle: over you're going over. Yeah. And the over.
Kyla: Yeah.
Lyle: All right. Let's see
Kyla: that I've ever heard of. I would never bet on this.
Lyle: Why? Oh, that's one of my, my [00:16:00] favorite bets.
It always gets controversial, because we'll be sitting there watching it. And we'll start the timer when they start singing, and then we'll end it. But it's never official. You have to kind of wait. And it's always debatable. Because like, sometimes they'll say the last word a couple times. And it's like, wait,
Kyla: is
Lyle: it?
Is it the last time you said it? The first time we said it. It's great. Really controversial. Okay, well
Kyla: I'm new to this, and this is, this is, I'm standing on my My vote. What's yours?
Lyle: I'm going to say the under I've always taken the over and I always lose.
Kyla: Oh, thanks for letting me know that now.
Lyle: Well,
Kyla: I'm still sticking with it, though.
Lyle: Yeah. Okay. So Kendrick Lamar is the halftime show. I have no idea who he is. I don't think I'm supposed to know. I mean, look at me. I feel really middle aged. Like, I
Kyla: don't know either. Like you guys, this is bad. But I have to Google right now.
Lyle: I know. I know. I am. Did you? But I do know and I remember that he does have a big beef with Drake.
Kyla: Oh, Kendrick. Wait, wasn't that guy? Oh, he's um,
Lyle: I think it's pretty good. The
Kyla: billionaire's ex husband.
Lyle: He [00:17:00] must be pretty good if he's a Super Bowl halftime show. Billionaire's ex husband,
Kyla: Kylie, Kylie Jenner.
Lyle: They were married.
Kyla: Yeah. And they have a kid together or two.
Lyle: Okay.
Kyla: I think that's Kendrick Lamar. So he's a rapper.
Lyle: So he yes,
Kyla: he's performing. Yeah. Aren't his raps like, I don't even know what his songs are, but aren't they like really like bad words? Lots of bad words. They'll probably edit it.
Lyle: It'll be a radio edit.
Kyla: I don't even know what he sings. That's really bad.
Lyle: I know. We're so lame. Sorry, guys. We listen to Matchbox 20.
So, yeah, and I know that's not popular or cool. No. That's bad. Okay. Also, your analytics are we do tend to have an older jet the same age as us listening.
Kyla: Yeah,
Lyle: so I think there'll be like, okay, we got it for my
Kyla: podcast. Yeah, yeah.
Lyle: So he does have that beef with Drake, right? So will Drake release a song on Super Bowl Sunday?
Oh, well, Jake, I [00:18:00]
Kyla: haven't heard from Drake since his house got flooded.
Lyle: Okay. And so a 10 bet on yes would pay you 37. So the odds are he's not going to I mean, So Drake, you're gonna drop a song on Sunday, but if he does your $10 bet would pay you $37.
Kyla: Drop a song, not an album,
Lyle: a song. Yeah. On Sunday. So
Kyla: he would wanna drop a song on Sunday to outshine Kendrick.
Lyle: Yeah.
Kyla: His halftime performance.
Lyle: Yeah. Yeah, because the beef,
Kyla: I doubt it because that's Drake competing with the Super Bowl, not Kendrick.
Lyle: No, and I would say no as well.
Kyla: Yeah,
Lyle: that's my paper writing down the bets. Yeah, and I'll put I'll go on. We'll make these bets.
Kyla: Why do they have a beef?
Lyle: I don't know.
Kyla: What did they do to each other?
Lyle: Hmm?
Kyla: Just beat each other in their songs?
Lyle: Yes.
Kyla: What caused that?
Lyle: That's a good? That's a good question. You should have some have a guest on that knows all about it. Be funny.
Kyla: Oh, can somebody Yeah, somebody suggests [00:19:00] their Intel on the
Lyle: Okay, on the pop culture top, there's lots of other bets you can make on Kendrick, like how many songs he sings, what songs he sings, all the guest stars there are,
Kyla: I would have no idea because I barely know him.
Um, unless he has like another rap mogul, but I don't see him. I don't see him ever performing with someone else. He's always like by himself
Lyle: Super Bowl. They almost always bring other people up. Yeah, it's like who so for the Swifties that are watching the Super Bowl. There's another big bet you can place.
Can you guess what it would be?
Kyla: Uh, what Taylor's wearing?
Lyle: Actually, you can make that bet. Um, no, you can make a bet on where she said what Travis Kelsey is wearing. So Travis Kelsey is Jason Kelsey's brother. He used to play for the Eagles. He was a center for the Philadelphia Eagles. He retired. Yeah, but now he's a broadcaster.
Really good one. Yeah, you can bet on like, what color he's wearing. I'm sure he'll be wearing like a green tie to the Eagles.
Kyla: Oh, he doesn't ever confide to like the red for [00:20:00] his brother.
Lyle: No, no, he's he's he's an eagle. That's so funny. Which is great.
Kyla: Yeah.
Lyle: But what's the bet? The bet was if her boyfriend and chief star tight end J.
Travis was Jason Kelsey was the Philadelphia Eagle. Yeah, you said that. Yeah,
Kyla: yeah,
Lyle: yeah. Travis Kelsey will propose to her following the game. Oh,
Kyla: I saw a reporter ask him. His thoughts on a diamond ring because she was trying to bend it in a way that it's like the Super Bowl ring.
Kyla (2): Mm
Kyla: hmm. She's like, what do you think about diamonds in a ring?
She's she's trying to like get at him for like, are you gonna propose to Taylor?
Lyle: Mm hmm. Okay, so we have some insight and
Kyla: Okay, so the bet is will he propose?
Lyle: Yeah, and a 10 bet pays you 75 if it's yes, if he does propose that then you make a bunch of money What do you say in the interview?
Kyla: Part of me is just like, would Taylor allow that?
Would she want it to be public? She's never really been like a private person, but it's like, and then when he would have to do it at the end, [00:21:00] but only if they win, because that would be weird if they didn't win. And then he's like, can't celebrate, but then he's proposing that would be weird. Right? So then and then you can't base a proposal on whether you win or lose a football game, because that has nothing to do with it.
And then it would just You know, it's like by chance, he could propose, but only if they win. Yeah,
Lyle: so you're saying no.
Kyla: Well, and she's going to be up in the box, and he's going to be down. She'll
Lyle: be down on the field by the time the game ends, if they win.
Kyla: But every time you look at people down on the field, they are mauled.
Right. They're like mall, but then
Lyle: he'll get some room and then he'll get down on one knee and give him a ring.
Kyla: I don't know. Oh, this is a hard one. What do you what do you
Lyle: know? It's not gonna happen.
Kyla: Okay,
Lyle: stupid.
Kyla: That was my first instinct was no. But I was like, Is there anything that might make it happen?
Lyle: You have the insight? What did she say in the interview?
Kyla: I feel like it's not a not a Travis and Taylor thing.
Lyle: Okay. Okay. And to [00:22:00] close it out always, of course, the Gatorade color. What are all the choices? odds are purple, yellow, purple, yellow, Purple and is one lime slash green.
Kyla (2): Yeah,
Lyle: orange, blue, red water slash clear.
Kyla: I'm gonna go with red,
Lyle: red.
Kyla: What was it last year?
Lyle: I can never remember. The best odds are purple and lime or green. Like the odds of it happening like water clear is like I think you make 100 bucks on a 10
Kyla: bet.
Lyle: I don't think it's ever happened. Yeah, I think maybe it has.
Kyla: There's no white Gatorade, technically, Claire.
I'm gonna go red because the chiefs are red.
Lyle: So you, and your money was on the chief? Are you
Kyla: picking the
Lyle: chief?
Kyla: Oh, well, yes. Why?
Lyle: You don't want the three peat?
Kyla: Well, I followed Because you're not
Lyle: an idiot like me?
Kyla: I want, I want the repeat for them. That would be cool.
Lyle: Ugh.
Kyla: Like, in the history books, that would be really cool.
So I want that for them.
Lyle: You know it's all rigged, though, right?
Kyla: What do you mean? What's
Lyle: rigged? That's what we, they joke about, that NFL's rigged, because [00:23:00] all the Chiefs get all the calls from the refs. Oh. Like, they want them to win. But which makes me question, I'm like, mm, does NFL really care that this mid sized Midwestern city is the top dog for three years in a row?
I don't know.
Kyla: But like, when you have millions of people watching a game, and you're the ref, like, there's cameras everywhere. You can't make a wrong call. There's cameras everywhere.
Lyle: Oh, you can. They always do. Last game, how three calls went their way in the second half. The one is ridiculous.
Kyla: There's millions of eyewitnesses.
They must get death threats.
Lyle: That's a dark turn.
Kyla: But it's like, when
Lyle: you Yes, you're absolutely right. They probably do the rest. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Kyla: Like when you have something as Valuable as that in your hands on a call that you can make regardless of anybody else, but you get the last say,
Lyle: okay,
Kyla: regardless of millions of witnesses and cameras showing that it wasn't the call you just made,
Lyle: I'm just the messenger.
But [00:24:00] Roger Goodell's in their ears telling them what to do.
Kyla: I haven't had time to like really dive into like football analytics. But now I'm fired up.
Lyle: So you're taking red. I'm taking purple. Okay, that's it for Super Bowl corner. Just the most important stuff you can think of.
Kyla: I like that. That's cool.
That's cool. All right, let's get into our recent trip to Disneyland. How we got to deciding to go back. Of course this year being without Bella and last year, almost a year ago exactly, we were there with her. First time trip for her and Waylon. Of course this time was the second time Waylon and got to go to Disneyland.
We planned a few different other things which we'll get into with our parks review because we went to four different parks. And We, I would like to start with how we, um, came to this decision and how we decided not to tell Weyland and make it a surprise.
Lyle: Oh yeah, that was the funniest part. Oh my
Kyla: gosh, it's so funny.
So we We have a close connection with the J. W. Marriott from [00:25:00] our first time there. They really, really, really made our trip special
Kyla (2): the
Kyla: hotel as they just really become like family to us since that trip. And it said, you know, if you're ever back here, let us know. We want to accommodate you. And so they did that in in many ways.
Uh, but we were like, Really what drove us to making this trip happen was we just seen over the few months recently Waylon really bringing up so many memories of the trip with Bella last year, and not being down about it, but just almost like him, like I felt him like emotionally struggling for a while.
And we really wanted to make this happen for him to just kind of like boost him a bit, give him a break. Um, and then also just for me, I don't know about you, but for me, like it's I've been wanting to go back there so badly because it's it was such a happy experience for Bella. Like it was really her happiest being there.
Like [00:26:00] she was just like,
Lyle: yeah, I agree. She's
Kyla: doing her best. Yeah. And so it's like the memories there are all happy. Yeah, they're all really good. They're not anything to do with hospital or pain. And
Lyle: what do you accomplish by going back to somewhere where you have these amazing memories? So Like, or I'm asking him what, what is the motivation there to do that?
Kyla: For me, it was a way to feel because you
Lyle: can't recreate things, obviously.
Kyla: No, but it was a way to feel connected with her to see Waylon wanting that and and giving that to him as like, like relief for him to be like, you know, he's bringing up these memories so much from last year, and then to see him so happy and like, being in it again.
And just like, that meant a lot. Like his happiness in this was really meant a
Lyle: lot. Also to like to experience as a family and kind of getting ready together, getting a plan together, use like involving him is really fun and encouraging to be well, like any time together, packing together, you know, well, and like any
Kyla: family that wants [00:27:00] like traditional Like have like happy, funny traditions that you can look forward to, you
Kyla (2): know,
Kyla: um, which would be awesome if we could go every year, but to go more often with him would be amazing.
That was the tradition. My dad set out for me was we did a lot of traveling, right? All the time. And I, I value that and appreciate that so much. That really opened up my eyes to this world. You know,
Lyle: we didn't do a ton of traveling, but we did do Disneyland Disney World. We were a big family of four, four kids, my mom and dad.
So cool. Cool. We didn't quite travel as much as I do. But we did do Disneyland and Disney World. They were amazing trips. Yeah. And you're right. I want to travel more like you guys did with Waylon. I mean, we are a small family now. So yeah. Uh, traveling is, it's hard not to do. It comes easy to us.
Kyla: Yeah. So we kept it a surprise for Waylon, not only because we wanted that to be fun for him, but we had planned this and then the California fires had started.
And so it was like, Wait a minute. We can't tell him and then actually not be able to go. So we kind of waited on that too, in a [00:28:00] sense of keeping it hidden from him, because it was like, wait, can we go for a while? And then of course we confirmed that it was possible. And so then we decided to still keep it a secret.
And I was
Lyle: on the fence about it a little bit, because I remember when we were preparing with Bella and Waylon, Uh, on our last trip, we went and we got Disney plus and like, we had a binge marathon of the Disney movies like a month preceding.
Kyla: We looked at rides on YouTube. Yeah. And researched,
Lyle: which I prefer.
I do prefer that. That was really exciting. And like, we were watching all the movies Waylon found out Peter Pan's his favorite character, Bella knew all the Disney stories anyways already, but It was fun for them to like do their research before going in. Yes. And their kid research .
Kyla: It was really funny when we wanted to see the reaction when we told them we were going to Disneyland.
Oh yeah. Do you remember that?
Lyle: Well, no. It was funny because there's a lot Before that we, we, I guess we packed up the more, uh, we've been fly up till 7:00 PM that, so we only, we had to pack basically the night before and [00:29:00] slowly the next morning to leave. Did he, did he even question, we just, we just told him, you, you have the day off from, from school.
Kyla: Oh, okay, no, wait, I was going back to when we first told Bella and Waylon. Oh, sorry. Well, no, I just wanted to touch on that, because that was really funny, because we were like, check this out, and we're showing them, like, the Disneyland park, like, on YouTube, on the TV. Oh, like,
Lyle (2): people walking through it.
Kyla: Wouldn't it be great to go there, and we're gonna go there, and then we were like, waiting for them to, like, clue in that we're actually going, and they were just like, wait, wait. Why are you showing us this? We're just like, no, we're going. They're like, okay, can we get back to our original cartoon? So we're like, oh my god.
But so, like, similar to that this time with Waylon, he never clued in. We never said, it was kind of funny. We just
Lyle: answered his questions as they came. As they
Kyla: came.
Lyle: Can
Kyla: you give me an
Lyle: example?
Kyla: We actually had like, he had like a little mini fight or issue the night before I went going to bed and he's like, I don't want to, I don't [00:30:00] want to be in this family anymore.
Lyle: Classic line. I'm done with this family.
Kyla: I kind of remember what he was mad about, but I was like, look, you know what? I was like, why don't we take a break tomorrow and have like a family day and just like, I'll let your teacher know you won't be at school. And we'll just like, take a break. And he's like, Oh, and so then he woke up knowing that we were going to, like, do something.
So he was expecting travel. So we got in the car. He didn't ask any questions. Oh, we're going on a family fun day. That's all he knew. And then we're driving and we get to Calgary and get to the airport. And he's like, the only time he questioned it was like, are we going to Chicago? Because we'd recently went to Chicago for the Ronald McDonald house global event.
And that was his last. Place in an airport and we were just like no, and then he never asked it.
Lyle: No, we're not going to Chicago. Okay By this point I was getting a little disappointed Come on, man. You gotta you gotta be a little more inquisitive than this We just drove [00:31:00] five hours down the road to go to an airport Yeah, and we find out that we're not going to Chicago and that's the only information you need Okay.
Okay. Well, let's just go through security.
Kyla: I on the other hand, I loved it. I was like, this is great. I want to know what do you find when he realizes like, maybe like, cause we were getting into LA at like 10pm. We didn't get to the hotel till like 11pm and I'm like, he's not gonna realize till we walk in the park tomorrow.
Lyle: If he asked if we were going to Disneyland, we would have said yes.
Kyla: Yeah. And then it would have been like, great.
Lyle: Or if we were, he didn't even ask, where are we going? Nope. Never, never asked it.
Kyla: So we were on the
Lyle: flight, weren't we? We
Kyla: were on the flight. Nothing just plain as he played. We're
Lyle: not going to Chicago.
Kyla: Nope. Then he just played his Nintendo Switch and that was that. And then we landed. We rent a car. We, he falls asleep in the car, right? Fell asleep in the car on the drive to the hotel. We got to the hotel. Doesn't say anything about, we walk in the front doors, doesn't say anything. And
Lyle: he's been to this hotel.
And this hotel, he recognizes.
Kyla: He recognizes the [00:32:00] hotel. We walk into our room and he's like
Lyle: we recognized it as being not Chicago. Yeah, this is in Chicago.
Kyla: Yeah, this isn't Chicago, but he didn't do that. Yeah, he just remembered being in that hotel before we go in. And he literally doesn't he recognizes the hotel.
And from the first time we stayed at the hotel, they had like a special unicorn cake in the room and like a bottle of champagne. And they had the bottle of champagne this time and some snacks and cookies. And he's like, wasn't that where Bella's unicorn cake was? And at that point, I thought, Oh, he got it.
No, just a random memory of a similar hotel room. Okay, then it's our room is facing the California Park,
Lyle: California adventure,
Kyla: California adventure. And he sits down on the couch eating his cookie. And I was like, Okay, he's I was like, I gotta catch this on camera. Yeah, cause you can see on the camera.
Lyle: Is that the Incredicoaster?
Kyla: Yeah.
Lyle: Are [00:33:00] we going to Disneyland? Tomorrow morning bud. He did freak out then.
Kyla: Then he freaked out and jumped on the couch and it was so cute. But he literally Didn't know where we were and didn't care. I'm so
Lyle: disappointed in him. Come on, man, you gotta, you gotta be a little more curious than that.
Kyla: He's just like, whatever.
Lyle: He certainly trusts us.
Kyla: Yep, yep.
Lyle: Maybe it was like a little bit of a vibe of, if I say it, it won't happen. Kind of like, if you call out like, I know the Tooth Fairy isn't real, then the Tooth Fairy stops coming.
Kyla: Oh yeah.
Lyle: It's not quite the same. Maybe he was just nervous about it happening or not.
Kyla: I think it was just genuine, like.
Whatever. I'm not at school today. That's great.
Lyle (2): Yeah, you're probably right. That's all of us, I
Kyla: think. Um, so that was really fun. I, uh We settled in, we're really excited to go to Disneyland, and I wanted to share some, what I believe were signs from Bella, and before I do that, I wanted [00:34:00] to, well, there was, there was two signs that I believe were kind of like winks from her that I, that I wrote down, like, um, and then there was one in reference to this book that I've been reading.
Lyle: Oh yeah, I'll show them on your camera. The vast majority aren't looking.
Kyla: Oh, right, right, right. Sorry guys, um, for those listening in. It's called Signs the Secret Language of the Universe by Laura Lynn Jackson. And this was a gift to You started reading this? Yes, I'm reading a book. I know, in our last episode I talk about how I don't read.
Lyle: Because you don't remember how far did you get into it?
Kyla: Well, I got my little bookmark there.
Lyle: Oh, you've made it 30. Oh, you've almost made it through the introduction. No, where my bookmark is. Oh, you're stop. That was the page I need page 20.
Kyla: Is it really? Is that where I am? Okay, well, I found out a lot.
Lyle: Or is this your bookmark way back?
No, no, it is page I marked a page here. Well into it. Let me see that.
Kyla: Anyways, I found a lot in the first 20 pages. So what does that say about this book? [00:35:00]
Lyle: How many sessions was it to get to page 20?
Kyla: I don't know. Okay, well, here's the thing. To be honest, I started reading this book and I'll read you guys a section that really spoke to me. And it's like, really, I think Laura's whole purpose.
And if you follow her on Instagram, Laura Jackson, she shares this quite a bit on her page. But at first I was like, I'm a woman of faith. And I, I know Bella's in heaven, and I trust that, and I trust God, and so I don't question that. But this book scared me a little bit in a sense that, is it making You don't
Lyle: need signs to validate them.
Kyla: Right. And, but then the way she explains how these signs are and how you can ask for signs really intrigued me. And it's something that since Bella's past has been heavy, heavy, heavy on my heart. Like, I know she's okay, but I just, I want that connection with her. Mm hmm. I want It's not something a connection from her, um,
Lyle: obviously, who wouldn't [00:36:00] want that?
Kyla: Right, right. And so that's
Lyle: really easy to understand.
Kyla: So Laura, and I'll get to the ones that I, that I specifically mentioned in our podcast. Did you get, did you lose my page? Okay, there it is. So she talks about, um, default signs. And then she goes on and says, distinct from default signs are signs that we specifically request objects, images, words, or phrases.
However, unusual or obscure. This is the secret language we can co create with the other side. I love I have co created this language in a variety of ways with my spirit guides. I usually ask for oranges and with my loved ones who have crossed I have I have asked for armadillos, aardvarks, and anteaters, which I chose because they're, they're sufficiently rare and are hard to miss.
With my father, who only recently crossed, one of the signs we share is Elvis Presley. This book will show you how to create your own language with the other side, so that when your signs come, you [00:37:00] will not only recognize them, but also feel the extraordinary power they bring. So that was just a little snippet of, she talks about it way, way more in this book, about how you can ask for signs.
From your loved ones who have passed, um, and default signs. But before that, there, there were two signs that I believe were from Bella, and kind of like winks from her to me saying like, Hey, mom, I'm here with you. And those were, and then I asked for a sign on our final day. Um, but the first day we were there, I saw three little girls wearing the exact pink sneakers that Bella has, and they were all girls.
Lyle: Aren't those custom?
Kyla: No, there's other ones like this. She just the people who sneak hers Canada, gave Bella and I matching pairs. But there are other other these are painted with that special pink. I saw three girls all close to Bella's age, or younger with exact sneakers. [00:38:00] And that's not
Lyle: something you're looking for.
Kyla: No, no, no.
Lyle: So you didn't but you because this book spoke about Creating a sign language asking
Kyla: for one. I'll get to that.
Lyle: She specifically identified things. You just saw these at random.
Kyla: Yeah, yeah.
Lyle: Okay,
Kyla: kind of like when I saw her name in my in the reflection of my clock, you know, it's kind of like, yeah, I feel like, okay, that was crazy.
She sent that. And then the other thing was the girl when I was waiting to give Rapunzel a hug. I was the last in line. And the girl in front of me was a little girl. Her name was Bella. And I was like, okay, I think that's another wink from my Bella. Um, but in reference to Laura Because Rapunzel was
Lyle: her favorite.
Kyla: Oh, yeah, one, one of, and I wanted to give her a hug and I gave her a little Bella Brave Heart and I'll talk about that too, but I left these little plastic sparkly pink Bella Brave Hearts all over the parks, just kind of as like a way to leave Bella there in her, like in her happiest place.
Lyle: And you've done that other places.
I've done that
Kyla: other [00:39:00] places too. Yeah, yeah.
Lyle: This one.
Kyla: Yeah. Um, so I don't think I wrote it on here, but after reading Laura's book, um,
Lyle: or I was reading 20 pages, a
Kyla: fair portion at the beginning of Laura Jackson's book, I had done this.
Lyle: The introduction. It's still on the introduction. So you can give me a fair portion of her introduction of her book.
Kyla: I'm getting to that. I fully admit I'm not a great reader, but there was a moment where I put the book down and I was scared.
Lyle: If this book was on your phone and you were just scrolling it rather than flipping pages, you'd be done it.
Kyla: No, no, I actually put it down because I didn't want to read it at one point because I was worried that this wasn't going to happen for me that I was maybe asking too much of Bella or that this isn't something I should be asking for.
Lyle: That's important to mention.
Kyla: Yeah, I was getting to that.
Lyle: Oh, I should just check myself out on somebody's podcast. It's
Kyla: because you're always rushing me like, Come on, Kyle, tell your
Lyle: [00:40:00] story. And our demographic would be like, Kyle, shut up.
Kyla: Yeah, our demographic, yeah.
Lyle: You researched that, you should know. I researched how many times you say shut up to me.
Kyla: No, you've researched that it's our demographic is like, I
Lyle: didn't need to do research to know that it's mostly women listening to this podcast.
Kyla: Oh, I would have, I don't know. Anyways, I The first time I read that part of the book and learned that I could ask for signs and have that connection possibly with Bella, I did, and I was doing it very doubtfully, kind of like, I don't know if this is something I should really rely on, I was kind of scared that it wouldn't come, she wouldn't come through, and that maybe it was hocus pocus and all that sort of thing, but the first time I did, I remember waking up that morning, and it was before I was going to see my friend in Saskatoon, and I had said, honey, I was like, if this is real, Um, if, if you can send a sign to mommy and show me your connection, I said, I'd like to see a purple rose.
And that day I got to my house and my friend had knitted a sweater with a purple [00:41:00] rose on it. Oh, sorry, honey. And then this is the only other time I've asked for a sign like that. And it was the last day of our trip to Disneyland. And I, in the morning I got up and I was like in the bathroom by myself and I was like, sweetheart.
Um, I just want to know you're here. I'd love a sign from you today. How about a giraffe? And that's just what I thought. It's like, how about a giraffe? And we pack up, we get on the road, the hour long drive to the airport, we're going to end part of me is like Looking at all the calls, cars and looking around.
I'm like, what if I see a draft? What if I actually see a draft? What if this actually happens? And then I tell myself like, stop, like, just let it happen. You can't like force it into into place. And then I forgot about it. By the time we got to the airport.
Lyle: That's probably healthy.
Kyla: Yeah,
Lyle: yeah.
Kyla: And then because I was just wanting it so bad to happen that it's like, no, it's not happening.
Yeah. It's not the way it has to go. You just have [00:42:00] to
Lyle: I think you've got to read the book
Kyla: more.
Lyle: Yeah, I
Kyla: do
Lyle: learn.
Kyla: But regardless of that, I shared it on my socials and Laura re shared it and she's like, signs are real. And so we get to the airport, and we go to get our tickets. And the gentleman in front of us and his wife are getting their tickets and on their luggage cart is a neck pillow giraffe.
Lyle (2): No.
Kyla: And I literally was just staring at it. And I remember going up and touching it and then thinking, oh, okay, this isn't mine. I should just
Lyle: be able to You did touch it? I did touch it and I was like, I need Get away from me, crazy lady. Why are you trying to steal my neck pillow? You touched her neck pillow?
Was it on her neck? No, it was on her luggage cart. It doesn't matter though. You're still trying to steal it.
Kyla: Well, I was like, okay, first of all, it was a real cute, like, Squishmallow neck pillow, but it was a giraffe, and I was checking to make sure that, like, the little giraffe, you know, their little, like, thingies on their heads like not antennas, but the little brown little thingies and then the ears.
I was making sure that it had that I was like is because it was like a neck pillow. But I was like making sure it was a giraffe. And then [00:43:00] the guy, the dad I should say because it was his son's neck pillow. Oh, no. Yeah. So the dad turns around and I was like, I kind of froze but I was like Oh, I really like that.
Is it a giraffe? And he's like, yeah, it's my son's neck pillow. And then he was like, laughing about something and went on to tell me a story about it. But he's like, yeah, that's a giraffe. And I was like, Oh, I was relieved that he didn't care that I wasn't touching his
Lyle (2): giraffe neck pillow. Trying to get out of that.
Kyla: But I was just like. I needed, I needed in my heart to confirm and then when he confirmed it for me, I was just like, inside I just melted and then I was like crying all the way to like, our gate. How did I miss all of this?
Lyle: I don't know. You were probably watching Waylon. I was probably taking care of business, being in an airport, and here in La La Land looking for giraffes.
Kyla: That's honestly, yeah, that's what happened.
Lyle: That's great.
Kyla: But I was just like, Wow, wow,
Lyle: remarkable.
Kyla: And I looked around and it's like does
Lyle: that not put too much pressure on everything, though?
Kyla: Not now. Now that it's happened twice in a row. It was so obvious. But now
Lyle: you're going to [00:44:00] be expecting these things.
And I mean, is it say, I don't this is
Kyla: too much
Lyle: pressure. On Bella. I don't know.
Kyla: That's what I thought in the beginning. And I like, I still need to read more of Laura's book.
Lyle: I don't know. Yeah, I think you're pretty.
Kyla: I want to read more. And but it's like, she,
Lyle: she read, I want to read more. There's no commitment to finishing the book.
I
Kyla: should finish it. I want
Lyle: to read more. But
Kyla: I was just really excited that like, I really think these, this is real. Like, I really think it is.
Lyle: That's cool.
Kyla: Yeah. Yeah, and I was just really happy about that.
Lyle: When I see on your socials, lots of times people sharing like the pink sunsets. Yeah.
Kyla: Yeah.
Lyle: So there's a difference between those sunsets, because quite common.
And
Kyla: yeah, she calls them the I think the default signs like things like butterflies and feathers and dimes, which like people like, I know, like I've had friends who's like their loved ones have passed away. And it's like, a feather, they're getting in their car and a feather out of nowhere lands on their shoulder.
And they're like, Oh, that's my that's my brother. [00:45:00] Or, you know, things like that. We're like our friends to
Lyle: and
Kyla: in Bella's case, googly
Lyle: eyes.
Kyla: I've had, I've had friends tell me they found googly eyes in places that you don't find googly eyes. And it's one googly eye. So it's like, okay, that's Bella giving you a winker and not right like saying like, I, I'm here.
And then there's the pink skies. I wish there was a way I don't know if we could do this. But I wish there was a way that Um, like, I feel that there might be some sort of record of how pink and vibrant and colorful the skies have been, but I'm getting messages from, like, Australia, like, Texas, England, like, Canada, and the state, all over the states, of these, like, vibrant pink skies, but it's been going on since Bella had passed, and everyone's like, I see Bella in the sky today, she's painting the skies today, and I'm like, I feel like this is more than normal, like, um, So between
Lyle: well, it's also on your, it's gonna be
Kyla: lame, it's okay.
Lyle: No, it was like when we saw the northern lights, and they're [00:46:00] really crappy them. But then when we took a photo of it,
Kyla: yeah,
Lyle: the phone like faked it and made it look amazing. I'm like, This photo of this north of the northern lights. I just took looks nothing like it in real life.
Kyla: But then remember when I
Lyle: didn't want to say that because the sunsets do usually appear just as vibrant in your phone.
Like, yeah, you're looking at holy crap. That's amazing. And then you take a photo and look saying the northern lights that was different. That was different. That was a scam. I think we covered that in like, Oh, we did the Northern Lights scam.
Kyla: Yeah, that was just like, that your phone did some but I was gonna say, Waylon recently has been it.
Lyle: Very sign orientated.
Kyla: He's just been like, Mom, look at the sky, and it'll be vibrant out our front window will be vibrant and orange and pink. And he's like, Mom, that's Bella. Like he's getting it. And he's not getting that from my socials. He's getting that from himself. And so like, that's another connection where it's like, wow, Waylon's recognizing this and he's not seeing people on my socials looking at this guy's
Lyle: no,
Kyla: sure.
No, right. And I've noticed him do that like two or three times now. Yeah, yeah, which is [00:47:00] really sweet. Um, okay, let's get into our review of the parks. So we visit Disneyland Park, California Adventure. And this time we went to Knott's Berry Farm and Universal Studios. So we
Lyle: and maybe bit probably the second best park.
I mean, you want me to rank it right now?
Kyla: Wayland's, oh, oh, just
Lyle: going to the ocean. I was going to say. The beach side and Laguna Beach. Yeah, Wayland.
Kyla: That was Wayland's first time touching and seeing the ocean.
Lyle: Yeah. Yeah.
Kyla: I didn't
Lyle: want to spend any more money that day. So I'm just like, let's go. Let's go to the beach.
Kyla: Um.
Lyle: And then we went to Knott's Prairie Farm. I'm like, I don't want to. Pay for really expensive tickets. So let's go here. Yeah, cheap days.
Kyla: Yeah, yeah. And we had like, we had, we had a good conversation about, like, when we were rating all of them. But I would say I think the number one thing if you want to go to any park is you legit have to budget [00:48:00] for food.
And food and you carnival games.
Lyle: I don't know the carnival games. We wasn't interested. We say, no, we're not. We're not right. That's money. But they're like
Kyla: everywhere.
Lyle: No, they're not a Disneyland or Magic Kingdom. The carnival games. There's just not very California land. Universal.
Kyla: Universal and Knott's Berry.
Lyle: Okay, well, so three outta the four. I don't think you necessarily do, you just, you don't have to do those things. You have to buy park tickets. You don't necessarily have to buy the park food. 'cause you could bring some in, like we bring in lunch, you can bring in bowls and snacks and water and a backpack.
So yeah, we had breakfast able that way. Breakfast
Kyla: at our hotel snacks we packed in backpack and then supper at our hotel.
Lyle: Yeah. 'cause we were walkable so we could,
Kyla: yeah.
Lyle: Always go back for supper.
Kyla: Yeah, yeah. But overall, our number one pick was Disneyland
Lyle: for sure. Magic Kingdom.
Kyla: Magic Kingdom, because it was the best.
It was the best for like kids Waylon's age or kids under 48 inches. Like there's still I
Lyle: think every single ride he could go on. Yeah, in Disneyland, because he was [00:49:00] 46 inches tall, which isn't that tall, but they make sure Yeah, and our favorite Space Mountain or and there's the most
Kyla: most to do and the nostalgia we talked about in the overall magic and the characters that are there, which is kind of left all the other parks kind of empty feeling.
Lyle: Yeah, the vibes that Disneyland are. Yeah. Yeah, worth it.
Kyla: Yeah, there was
Lyle: the premium price.
Kyla: Our favorite rides were Indiana Jones mine Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain were Wayland's and Pirates and the Haunted Mansion were yours.
Lyle: Yeah.
Kyla: Yeah,
Lyle: I think so.
Kyla: Um, I did get some information about the DAS pass.
Lyle: So, well, Bella had the disabled pass last time we went. Yes. It was really helpful for her because she could go into exits. But, yeah,
Kyla: apparently it's changed. So, Bella had a disability, like, so she had dwarfism. And so not only was walking really like walking from ride to ride and then walking the lines was really, really hard.
So we
Lyle: had a stroller. We had a stroller. Or
Kyla: there's for people like in wheelchairs or people that physically can't [00:50:00] stand in lines for long periods of time. I guess it has changed. And I don't maybe you could DAS pass is not as usable for everyone with disabilities anymore, especially physical ones, because it's primarily for people with, um, uh, ADHD.
Uh, what's, uh, what's the word? Uh,
Lyle (2): ADHD.
Kyla: What's the actual word of it, though? Not the acronym. Um,
Lyle: Attention Hyper Disorder.
Kyla: Oh, no, what is it? There's a word for it. Um, autism.
Lyle: Well, that's not
Kyla: ADHD. Sorry. Yeah, I know. Autism. Um, autism, I think, was the primary one. So It's just basically changed in a way that doesn't really accommodate those with physical disabilities as much as it does for those with autism.
So actually, it's harder to get the DAS pass now, which [00:51:00] is kind of unfortunate in many ways. But, um, I don't know, maybe if you could, like, talk to someone and. Apparently, it's been really difficult for people that need that have disabilities. Well, there's
Lyle: probably a lot of people that took advantage of it, too.
Kyla: Yeah, that's true, too. Um,
Lyle: maybe we just have to make a case. Yeah, fine. But I mean, yeah, I can't imagine it's easier for someone with autism stand in lines.
Kyla: Yeah, exactly. That's just one of the many right, though, like, right. But
Lyle: yeah,
Kyla: um, we found you know what,
Lyle: who does take advantage? We're standing in line for cars.
And like, how many times do we get passed by people who are like, Oh, I'm just meeting up with my friend at the front of the line. I'm like, get That
Kyla: happened five times to us. Okay, so in the cars Line so this some of these rides
Lyle: radiator springs
Kyla: at rate radiator springs, right? So it had it it didn't have a lightning lane It has own separate lightning lane that you would had a separately purchase Yeah
Lyle: for like 25 bucks each
Kyla: or you wait in line and the line moved pretty good, but it was an hour wait We [00:52:00] had five people but in front of us and they would just be like, sorry, just meet my friend.
Oh, sorry. Sorry nothing of value for why they just
Lyle: butted like, adult is coming back with their kid from like, that just had to pee without peeing their pants, right? Or other, yeah, something along that line. Yeah.
Kyla: But it's like, Like,
Lyle: no, this group of 16 year olds doesn't need to It was all, feed up to their friend.
Yeah. Like, one person goes ahead, I'll wait in line, you guys go do these things, and come
Kyla: There was one group of three young adults, and the young adults in front of us were like, this is ridiculous, because they saw it too. But there was one group of three young adults where they did it twice, the one guy was ahead, went back, got two of his friends came back, and then went back for himself for whatever, whatever reason, and then came back.
And every time he came back, they were ahead of us and butted and went back in line. It was like, what are you doing? And then there was other random adults. We're young adults that just like walked by us like, sorry, [00:53:00] it's
Lyle: like, it's like, Oh, my, I hope you don't mind. I said, we do. And then everyone started laughing.
Yeah,
Kyla: yeah, we're like, we do. And you don't have a reason. But like,
Lyle: as a Canadian, I can't believe I spoke up.
Kyla: I know.
Lyle: But I didn't say anything for you.
Kyla: You're like, we do. No, I usually open my mouth.
Lyle: It's kind of big. What do you look at?
Kyla: I'm getting a phone call.
Lyle: Oh, anyways.
Kyla: Um,
Lyle: yeah, Disneyland. The best California venture.
Second best. But these are the priciest places to go. Knott's Berry Farm. It has really good roller coasters, but it's you still feel like you're in a parking lot.
Kyla: Yeah, it's the least expensive It's good for a day like universal and not very you only really need for a day I wouldn't get the fast pass at Knott's Berry or or universal unless you are like an adult Who is really into roller coasters?
Otherwise, like,
Lyle: no, uh, Universal really didn't even have a roller coaster. It had kind of one and then the one isn't ready to go yet. The [00:54:00] Fast and Furious one. That's really cool.
Kyla: It does. That was the other thing about Universal I noticed is that also not worth getting a fast lane pass because there's only like two rides per area.
There's not a lot of rides there. It's like all food. And it's all just waiting
Lyle: till you get to like the tram tour shopping of the Universal Studios, which is really fun.
Kyla: The tram tour is like the thing
Lyle: with like jaws coming up by the water and Norman Bates chasing you with a knife.
Kyla: Yeah.
Lyle: And the Oh, and they they park the tram and then you do do like real rides in there.
But like I was telling you, I think it was like the fourth or fifth ride. I'm like, I'm so sick of going on these rides. They're all simulators. It's a simulator where you just wiggle in your seat and look at a screen. I'm like, yeah, I am not into that anymore. I'd rather go to Disneyland and watch like the storybook ride where you just in this little trolley and you have like cardboard cutouts slapping at you.
Yeah.
Kyla: And all the simulators, like I'm a motion sick person, which I figured out on like the third simulator. Um, I mean, I've done flyover. The [00:55:00] first flyover I did last year in Disneyland.
Lyle: Sick.
Kyla: Almost made me sick.
Lyle: Star Tours made you sick. Star Tours,
Kyla: I didn't know it was that bad. I was probably within a minute of vomiting over everybody in the seats in front of me.
Like it was, I was going to grab my purse and vomit into my purse, but I can't do it. Can't do the motion sickness. So now I watch for all the warnings that they do have at the start of the line for all these rides. And it's like, or I'll go in like Google and be like, what is this ride? And it's like, not for motion sickness people.
Lyle: But I think on the third day, we went down to Laguna Beach. It was nice. We rented a car because I looked at when we landed at LA, I was like, Oh, let's get an Uber. It'll be easy. And then I think that price to get an Uber from LAX to our airport, which is really close to Disneyland was like 130 American. I was like, I can rent a car for 200 for the week,
Kyla (2): which,
Lyle: and the gas was practically nothing.
It felt like down there. Yeah, that was crazy price. And so we drove there and back and down to Laguna Beach and Knott's [00:56:00] Creek Farm Universal.
Kyla: Yeah.
Lyle: And it was way better option.
Kyla: Yeah, I really like you're comfortable
Lyle: driving. And yeah, you really like that.
Kyla: I didn't mind. I it was like, at one point, you look up and you're like in eight lanes of traffic, but I
Lyle (2): It wasn't
Kyla: bad.
It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. And like, I mean, we did go like, January, mid January, right? Yeah, it was really quiet. Like, it was a good time to go and the weather wasn't bad. It was like, plus 18 plus 20. Yeah. Um, sunny, no rain. Uh, I was surprised for anybody that likes, oh, are we almost? Okay. Um, I was surprised about the drink options.
First of all, Disneyland doesn't have any adult drink
Lyle: option. You have to go to the Star Wars area to get a beer.
Kyla: Yeah, the very, very, very, very end of it.
Lyle: Yeah.
Kyla: And then there was lots in California adventure, but. They're like 15 American. Oh, yeah.
Lyle: And the one guy asked me, he's like, how much that beer costs?
I'm like, 15 bucks. And he's like, oh no.
Kyla: Sunk and you saw him and was just like, what? Well, I paid for it. Yeah. Here I am. And then the last tip was like, [00:57:00] I didn't realize until after like, I had a friend say like, Oh, I should have gave you my Mario band.
Lyle: Let's
Kyla: get wristband for Nintendo World at Universal and the
Lyle: world was cool, but one ride and then a bunch of like wristband.
Kyla: It was one ride. And then it's just a wristband game that you you don't need to buy the 45 American wristband because the things that the people are doing their wristbands with. You can just stand there and watch and get the same experience.
Lyle: It's like, oh, we're not that paying to go on the roller coaster.
You can just watch them ride the roller. Isn't that just as good, Waylon?
Kyla: But it's like, we went to all these, like, it'd be like, this, you like, crank this thing. No, he could
Lyle: literally punch the thing and it would light up and it would be safe. He didn't care. He didn't really need the bag. He didn't even know.
It was a bag. 50 bucks. 50
Kyla: bucks? But then, you go to Harry Potter World. The wand is 75. Yeah, it's the same thing with a wand, and I just watched these kids and their wands. And you just go up to a couple different windows and tap this sensor in the window, and it just moves like a flower.
Lyle: Oh, right. So [00:58:00] you, yeah, you can watch this.
Okay.
Kyla: Yeah. And I'm like, 75 bucks.
Lyle: Hard pass. No. If we went back again, which I would, I imagine we will.
Kyla: Yeah.
Lyle: Uh, I would do two at Disneyland, one at California, maybe two at California. If we was like in the summer, we could go on like the Grizzly Rapids.
Kyla (2): Oh, right. Yes.
Lyle: But like, Three or four days because we've been there lots.
We know kind of now. So yeah, but and then beach days,
Kyla: beach days. And yes, because all of the parts to go
Lyle: like the San Diego Zoo. Oh, yeah,
Kyla: we didn't do the zoo. And there's like in Knott's Berry universal and Um, I think California, no, and Disney, all four of them, they have like, uh, seasonal rides that they only do in the summer,
Lyle: like water park areas.
It was still 20 degrees Celsius when we were there, so it was really comfortable.
Kyla: But it'd be nice to go on warmer, warmer weather and do like the water parks in the parks and then a beach day. Yeah, that'd be awesome. And the beach
Lyle: at I remember how Disneyland is putting on a water park.
Kyla: Right, you [00:59:00] said that earlier.
Lyle: No, your, your friend.
Kyla: My friend that works through Disney did.
Lyle: Yeah.
Kyla: Yeah, you reminded me. Um, I totally forgot about that.
Lyle: Oh, you should tell people about the special moment of Wayland coloring the one evening. Oh, that's Walt Disney World, like in Florida, they close early, but Disneyland and California Adventure, they stay open to like 10, 11pm.
Kyla (2): Yeah.
Lyle: And it's awesome. It's like the favorite my favorite time. It's after supper. Yeah, these places.
Kyla (2): Yeah.
Lyle: And the one night we went over Disneyland and you know, Main Street has all these cute little shops lining it and then kind of walk down and we pick the random one where it's like, Really nice colorings in the art gallery gallery, and
Kyla: they had an in house artist as they do at Disneyland.
And so we went in there and Waylon was immediately intrigued with her. And there was another gentleman there. And he he was asking all these questions like. How do you decide what to draw? And I was asking her some questions. I'm like, what kind of requests do you get? How can you draw the characters? And they were telling us about how the special approval they need to get from [01:00:00] Disney to draw characters in certain ways.
Like, you can't just be like drawing like Mickey murdering like Daisy dog or something like that, right? Like, you have to get approval of like, The character and how they're drawn and what colors are used like it all has to be there's
Lyle (2): like they do like black market dizzy off off the side.
Kyla: Yeah, back
Lyle (2): alley.
Yeah,
Kyla: they're not everything that goes through there has to be approved. Like it's very strict. And so a whaling was like so intrigued and she offered to allow him to like Sit at her studio and she shared how her studio works and her table and the light and the light
Lyle (2): board
Kyla: and the light board And asked Waylon to pick out like what he wanted to draw and he's like I want to draw a lightning McQueen and she helped him set it all up and I was just like it it was it was so Genuine and sentimental and I was just like do you like do this often?
She's like no like once in a blue moon And
Lyle: he got a special pin that like it's one of the hardest ones to get apparently people collect these pins [01:01:00] And this one is really,
Kyla: yeah, it says honorary sketch artist. And well, he also got his image of Lightning McQueen officially stamped with the Disney stamp, which is, um, like an imprint in the paper.
And then he got a special pet pin that says, Honorary Disney Sketch Artist. We should
Lyle: frame his Lightning McQueen sketch.
Kyla: Oh yes, we have to frame it.
Lyle: That was really good. But she was
Kyla: like
Lyle: Special moment.
Kyla: Cross out the honorary. She's like, you're an amazing sketch artist. She said cross out that. It was so sweet.
It was really endearing. I really like, I just shared that as a trial reel on my Instagram and I'm still learning how trial reels work. But I still have to figure out how to actually make it like a post for my current followers. I think it's just out there right now for people that aren't following me.
Lyle: Yeah,
Kyla: but I do share this whole story in a post on my Instagram.
Lyle: I think the Disney experience kind of you're going to get those sort of moments that you're not going to get anywhere else. And that's what. Makes it special.
Kyla (2): Yeah.
Lyle: And I mean, we had those moments with Bella when we were there too at like, what do you call it?
The, the, um, [01:02:00] where she got her dress.
Kyla: Oh, the Bibbidi Bobbidi boutique.
Lyle: Yeah. Oh, those sort of moments. Yeah. Happened there that don't happen other places. Yeah. So yeah,
Kyla: yeah.
Lyle: Number one.
Kyla: Yeah. Disneyland number one for for us. And then if any of our listeners want to comment any of their theme park tips, We would appreciate that.
That would be awesome.
Lyle: You know, there's a good forum for that if you're on Reddit.
Kyla: I not use, I've never used Reddit.
Lyle: It's cool. Is it? It's like it's got every single topic and like
Kyla: tips and like information.
Lyle: Yeah, absolutely. Really neat and up to date stuff. I've never used it. Going online now and like looking at a corporate website.
It was just not helpful anymore, but like getting real feedback from people. Yeah, who hasn't
Kyla: been there. Yeah, anyways, we should probably wrap up even though there's like so much more I want to cover Definitely
Lyle: scoot. I got to go into town and get Waylon's skate sharpened. Yeah, I gotta drop off my buddy's clubs
Kyla: He has a hockey tournament tomorrow.
Waylon
Lyle: has hockey. [01:03:00] He's got three
Kyla: games tomorrow. He needs sharp skates Yeah.
Lyle: Yeah. He's slip sliding around out there.
Kyla: Yeah. Yeah. So that'll be the end of our episode today. Thank you all for listening to us on beyond brave. Please remember to stay brave. And just, uh, thanks a lot for those of you that have taken the time to rate, uh, leave a comment, uh, save, share.
And all the rest.
Lyle: Yeah, give us a like. We're a five star review.
Kyla: Right?
Bella: Yeah.
Lyle: Bye everybody.
Bella: And I think it can help you too. So don't be afraid to be
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