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Speaker 1: Welcome to Lively Lewis Stories.

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Speaker 2: Buckle up, because you're about to join Levi and Ivy

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Speaker 2: on an adventure.

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Speaker 1: All you need is your imagination an.

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Speaker 2: Off we go, Ready, Rare Stories. Have you ever had

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Speaker 2: one of those days where it seems like everything is

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Speaker 2: going wrong?

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Speaker 1: Sure, I think we've all had one of those days.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you spill hot fudge all over your favorite sweatshirt,

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Speaker 1: or your new shoes get covered in peanut butter, or

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Speaker 1: you drop your chips that look like animal collections in

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Speaker 1: the snow.

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Speaker 2: Chips that look like animal collection? What are you doing

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Speaker 2: when I'm not home? Anyways? I think those things could

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Speaker 2: technically happen to anyone, but most likely just you. Also,

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Speaker 2: I agree that we have all had bad days. But

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Speaker 2: have you ever been in the middle of a bad

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Speaker 2: day and found out that everyone around you is also

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Speaker 2: having a bad day?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I see what you're getting at. I remember that day.

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Speaker 1: I felt like it lasted forever until you, me, Levi

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Speaker 1: and Ivy decided to change your outlook and things got

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Speaker 1: a lot better.

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Speaker 2: It definitely took a little while for that to happen,

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Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, I think we

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Speaker 2: all learned something really important.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't wear new shoes when you've just bought a

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Speaker 1: giant jar of peanut butter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose. But also that bad days don't last

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Speaker 2: forever and you have more control over them than you think.

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Speaker 1: That is totally true. It's funny, I remember it so clearly,

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Speaker 1: but kind of wish I could forget it. We all

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Speaker 1: woke up that Saturday morning ready for a day at

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Speaker 1: the amusement park.

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Speaker 2: The kids had been looking forward to it for a month.

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Speaker 2: It was the opening of that brand new roller coaster

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Speaker 2: and we were all ready to fly through the air

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Speaker 2: on the Daring Dragon. It was the biggest roller coaster

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Speaker 2: around and everyone wanted to try it out, especially Levi

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Speaker 2: and Ivy.

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Speaker 1: But the weather definitely had other plans. We had checked

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Speaker 1: that weather report NonStop that whole week and could not

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Speaker 1: have been happier that it was supposed to be warm

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Speaker 1: and sunny on the day we had planned to go

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Speaker 1: visit the park.

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Speaker 2: However, when we woke up that morning, is anything but sunny.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it was pouring rain. I grabbed my phone

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Speaker 2: to see if it was just a quick storm, but

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Speaker 2: it turned out it was not.

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Speaker 1: It was going to last all day and popped up

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. We checked every local TV station to

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Speaker 1: see if anyone had better news, but unfortunately, every weather

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Speaker 1: person on every station said the same thing. We're sorry,

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Speaker 1: we couldn't have predicted this at all. Hopefully you don't

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Speaker 1: have outdoor plans and can still enjoy your day.

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Speaker 2: But we did have outdoor plans and didn't know how

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Speaker 2: we were going to tell the kids. But once Levi

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Speaker 2: and Ivy got up, we couldn't hide the rain from them.

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Speaker 1: They immediately started asking what we were going to do

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Speaker 1: and if we could still go to the amusement park

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Speaker 1: and if we could still ride the Daring Dragon. We

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Speaker 1: explained to them that the amusement park has to close

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Speaker 1: if there's a lot of rain because the rides can't

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Speaker 1: run on bad weather.

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Speaker 2: That did not go over very well. Levi and Ivy

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I did cry just a little bit

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Speaker 1: that day, thinking I wouldn't be able to get my

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Speaker 1: favorite colossal corn dog at the park and of course

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Speaker 1: missing out on a day with family.

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Speaker 2: Of course, so we quickly told the kids that we

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Speaker 2: could just use our tickets another day, and we do

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Speaker 2: something fun at home.

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Speaker 1: And that's when I unfortunately had to tell them that

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Speaker 1: I bought the tickets on a special discount day and

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Speaker 1: I got a great deal because there were no refunds,

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Speaker 1: no exchange tickets. Why would you do that? Levi shouted,

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Speaker 1: I'd pay any amount of money to ride the Daring Dragon.

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Speaker 1: It's not called the discount Dragon. Why would you do that?

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Speaker 1: I told Levi. I knew he was upset, but getting

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to make it stop raining or get me

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Speaker 1: a corn dog.

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Speaker 2: Ivy wasn't much better. She looked at me with tears

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Speaker 2: in her eyes and asked why we'd pick such a

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Speaker 2: and exclaimed that we'd have pancakes for breakfast. That stopped

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Speaker 1: That was until we found out that we were out

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Speaker 1: of pancake. Next, why don't we go out for breakfast leave,

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Speaker 1: I suggested, and we all thought it was a great idea,

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Speaker 1: so we got dressed, grabbed our rain boots, and headed

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Speaker 2: That's when more bad luck showed up. I walked around

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Speaker 2: was flat. Fig it, fix it, mix.

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Speaker 1: It was all we could hear. As we walked back

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Speaker 2: But mom always says that breakfast is the most important

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Speaker 2: meal of the day, says Ivy as she took off

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Speaker 2: her rain boots. Great the one thing she remembers that

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Speaker 2: we all make our way to the kitchen and we

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Speaker 2: decide what we'll do next.

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Speaker 1: Game day was my idea, and I told the kids

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Speaker 1: to run into the playroom and each get their favorite game.

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Speaker 1: I started to clear off the dining room table and

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Speaker 1: everyone seems to be feeling fine.

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Speaker 2: We started to think that maybe our bad look was

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Speaker 2: ending and we'd make the best of the day after all,

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Speaker 2: until we heard a scream come from the other room.

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Speaker 2: Ivy had grabbed a step stool to reach her favorite

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Speaker 1: She hurt her foot, which thankfully was all that happened,

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Speaker 1: but to make matters worse and keep the bad luck flowing,

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Speaker 1: missing three pieces we needed.

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Speaker 2: So Levi was up next. His game did have all

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Speaker 1: I had to tell him that winning isn't the only

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Speaker 1: thing and it's fun to just play. But after the morning,

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Speaker 1: we all thought it would have been really nice for

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Speaker 1: him to have a win.

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Speaker 2: So since game day wasn't exactly the best idea, we

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Speaker 2: decided that we'd let the kids pick any sweet treat

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Speaker 2: and we'd make chocolate chip cookies for lunch. Sounded great

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Speaker 1: However, yes, however, I was asked to grab the sugar

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Speaker 1: with a funny dance I was doing that, I accidentally

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Speaker 1: grabbed the salt instead. I mean, they're both in clear

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Speaker 2: It really wasn't your fault. The labels fell off the

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Speaker 2: containers a few days earlier, and I never got around

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Speaker 2: each had a bite of a salty bad luck chocolate

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Speaker 1: That's when I stood up, stubbed my toe on the

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Speaker 2: It was right then that I couldn't hold it anymore.

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Speaker 2: And you may think I'm going to say I was

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Speaker 2: that it became funny.

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Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there covered in when I look up

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Speaker 1: is she laughing, Ivy asked me, because sometimes you just

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Speaker 1: and laugh.

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Speaker 2: That's right, I know when bad luck starts to feel

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Speaker 2: like one big rainy day salty chocolate chip cookie. But

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Speaker 2: you have the ability to say, I refuse to have

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Speaker 2: any more bad luck today. Then everything that happens after that,

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Speaker 2: you just try and find the good in it.

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Speaker 1: Like this rainstorm, for example, we get to look forward

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Speaker 1: to a rainbow when it's done. And those salty cookies

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Speaker 1: taught us an important lesson. When a label falls off

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Speaker 1: your salt and sugar containers.

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Speaker 2: Replace them that day. We'll get to the amusement park

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Speaker 2: soon enough, and when we do that, I just know

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Speaker 2: we'll have the best day ever. The kids looked at

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Speaker 2: to laugh. We all laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed,

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Speaker 2: and it became the best bad day we ever had.

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Speaker 1: Here we stop giggling, I said, even if we get

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Speaker 1: they're out of corn dogs, Now, I know that no

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Speaker 1: matter what, we'll have each other and we'll find a

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Speaker 1: way to make the best of it.

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Speaker 2: So that was our bad luck day that turned out

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Speaker 2: pretty good. We were able to teach Levi and Ivy

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Speaker 2: a great life lesson, and after ordering a pizza and

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Speaker 2: snuggling up on the couch to watch a rainy movie,

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Speaker 2: we all went to bed, knowing that tomorrow would be

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Speaker 2: a lot better. Did you learn a lesson from this story?

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Speaker 2: He felt, what was it?

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Speaker 1: And parents, do your kids have a story idea?

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Speaker 2: chance to join Levi and Ivy on their next adventure.

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Speaker 2: Until next time, thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: Come back for more

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