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Fearless Fun at Sea: Diva Adventures on the High Seas on our Cruise · The Diva Details

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Welcome to the Diva Details. Welcome to the Diva Details.
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Where bold, confident women embrace life unapologetically.
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From love and sex to wellness and reinvention. We keep it raw, real and powerful.
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No filters, no limits. Just fearless conversations to help you thrive.
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Let's dive in with Diva Mia and Diva Cat.
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Well, hello, Diva Cat. Hello, Diva Mia. How are you doing today? Good.
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You know, I had such a fun time with you last week. It was fun? Oh, my God. It was crazy.
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We met so many interesting people, did we? We sure did. It was my virgin cruise trip.
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I was a virgin and I'm no longer a virgin.
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I have now officially passed over to I Have Done a Cruise.
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Oh, my God. It was amazing. It was amazing because short trip,
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if you're going to try your first cruise, four days is tough.
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It was perfect. It was perfect.
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It was perfect. And I didn't get seasick. No.
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And I did well. Even on my water fast, I water fasted through the whole cruise.
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Dad, I have to give you like 10,000 plus. I do not know how you escaped those wind jam buffet.
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Oh my. You know, they did try to feed me. It was kind of funny.
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They did try to feed me on the cruise. I told the waiters I didn't want to order anything.
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And they brought me food anyway. I know because they, do you know they raise
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based on how they serve, based on the food? I'm sure, but I kept telling them no.
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First they brought me salmon and then they brought me ice cream.
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I'm like, dude, I don't want anything.
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They're like, no, you need to eat something. I'm like, no, I'm good.
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Yeah, I'm telling you, this cruise, the food was phenomenal.
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I like the way, I think that's how we all should eat. The portion was perfect.
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The perfect size of portions.
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Yeah, I did notice that. Although, for some reason... Well, I didn't order five
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appetizers. People did order multiple appetizers.
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And so I was watching people eat, and I was like, wow, you guys eat a lot. We did eat a lot.
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To my defense, I only stay in one serving of everything.
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That's true. And you did send stuff back you didn't like. I did think that was good.
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Yeah. So for the first time that I went on the cruise and I came back, I stayed in the same way.
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That's great. That's fantastic. I know.
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But even I stayed in the same way, I think because of...
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My choices, well, it's not helping that. I forgot my arthritis medicine.
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But it took me two days, and I started drinking a lot of water.
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I fast. I fast. I didn't eat until 5 p.m.
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Oh, so you did a 12-hour fast. Right. Okay. And I felt amazing.
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Good. I'm still doing it now. Look at that. Yeah. Fasting is fun.
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Yeah, I like it. Yeah. Because I don't have to worry about when I'm going to eat for breakfast.
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You don't have to worry about food. You save so much time. You can get more
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stuff done. And then you get like me.
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I'm 27 days in on my fast. Yeah, I have to give you like two thumbs up.
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You know, my thumb, my everything up for you. I cannot. I told you I was going
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to do a long month. And I am zooming.
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I'm like mentally astute. I am working. I worked out today. I worked on the yard.
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I did a whole bunch of work at home. I did laundry. I did the dishes.
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And then I am working on a book.
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And you even work out on the freaking cruise without food. I worked out without food.
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I did weights. I walked. I did yoga. I wear my workout clothes every day,
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but I didn't work out as much.
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Yeah, it's amazing how much you can work out when you're not eating. What?
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You don't work out hard. Don't get me wrong. Well, I'm lifting hard.
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Right. Just because my joints don't hurt so I can lift a little heavier.
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But I'm not doing high-intensity cardio.
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Although I did dance quite a bit. You did dance. Oh, we danced our butt-oh. We danced so much.
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Oh, my God. But I will say there were times when I was like,
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okay, I got to go lay down. Yeah.
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I could go for a couple hours and then I was done. Yeah.
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Do you agree, though, after you dance to the light band or those Latin songs
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and you can't go back to the DJs?
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No, I could still go back to the DJs. Can you? I can't. But it was fun dancing.
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We danced, we danced like every night. It was fun. And I ate pizza every night.
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Yes. I didn't get away. I only stayed in one side. That's amazing.
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Well, that I thought, well, they had decent looking food, I will say.
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And it smelled good. So I did smell everyone's plates.
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Yeah. But the food on the cruise, it was pretty decent. Yeah.
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And I was amazing how well organized they did too. They did a really nice job. We did so many people.
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Yeah. I think I'll go on another cruise again. Yeah, I love it.
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I was impressed. I was a little nervous, being a cruise version and all.
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And I think my big nervousness is from the media.
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What? It's from the news, making it sound like all these cruises are really nasty, dirty places.
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Whenever you went in to eat, they'd have you wash your hands at the buffet.
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So they kept things very clean.
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Yeah. It was clean and well organized, and I didn't see anyone getting sick. No.
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They blocked you before even you go into the restaurant to wash your hands.
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Yeah, they stopped you to make you wash your hands to make sure everybody's
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clean and well-organized.
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And so I was very impressed. And I need to stop listening to the media anyway
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because half of it's lies anyway.
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But it was interesting to see that, you know, people were doing this.
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And we went on a cruise with 20 ladies.
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Right? All the ladies was, oh, they're so much fun. That's all they want to
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do, get dressed, walk around, take pictures.
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I'd only met half of them, but you have some beautiful friends and beautiful
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family. They're not just beautiful outside.
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They're beautiful inside. They were wonderful people.
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I know. And not only that, they help you anywhere they can. They could.
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They would love to talk to you.
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None of them were really superficial. They were very, very pretty ladies.
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Yes, they do. All Asian, some type of Asian descent. They were beautiful.
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The 65 years old, which is the oldest one, is the most prettiest one, I think. Yeah.
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Well, they were all beautiful. And they were all sweet and nice.
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And I didn't feel judged even though, you know, I didn't look like everyone
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else and I felt like I got, well, I'm fine with everybody. Yeah,
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it's fun. There's a lot of fun.
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But you know what things with the cruise though?
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It's so many things, activity light up. You pretty much do your own thing.
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We didn't really meet each other until like dinner time. That's true. That's true.
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And well, some people met for breakfast and lunch, but yeah,
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everybody do their own. Different activities. Yeah. I love the dancing lessons.
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Yeah, we got to learn dancing. We got to learn line dancing.
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That was fun. That was fun.
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And everybody hanging out in their swimsuits. And then I met the most wonderful
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woman that was a bodybuilder. Oh, my God. We have to talk about that.
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She's 73 years old. Her name's Renee.
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I don't think she'd mind if I actually shared her Instagram profile if anybody
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wants to follow her. Yeah.
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Her Instagram is Renee Fit at 70.
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She's 73 years old and she is gorgeous.
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And she just started competing when she was 69.
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She competes in different bikini competitions. She looked, oh,
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my God, her bikini is beautiful. Her bikini is beautiful.
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The funny thing was is she's 73, and she was getting checked out by 20-year-old somethings.
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Telling you. She has a better body than most 20-year-old women.
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And I was like, holy moly.
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And so we talked a whole bunch. And I call her friend now.
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We're still messaging. Yeah. And it was interesting how you meet some of the
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most interesting people on these
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cruises. And it was just kind of luck and fate that she sat next to me.
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I'm telling you. Yeah, because I want to eventually compete.
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Probably not the bikini level, but more of the figure level.
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And so a little bit, because I'm a little bit more muscular than she is.
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But it was interesting to talk to her, get her insight. She's very knowledgeable, very smart woman.
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Very. Very smart woman. And I was, like, shocked. I was like,
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wow. She invited me to go on a cruise next weekend.
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Did she? Yeah, she kept taking all her grandkids there, her granddaughters.
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That's wonderful. She wants me to go on one in January with her where.
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Oh, with the country lie dancing.
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No, that's the swimsuit one. The country one's in November.
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Oh, is it? Yeah, there's a country. So she's also into dancing.
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And I will tell you, watching her move, she is more nimble and more spry than I am.
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I'm telling you. And she is over 20 years older than me.
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And her life, her lifeblood, her energy force is amazing. She's so spirited.
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I was just, I was amazed. I'm amazed by her. And I'm also amazed with her friend.
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Her friend is a lawyer. And her friend is about 10 years younger than I am.
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And, you know, I'm on this semi-glutai chart.
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Yeah. So her friend was also on semi-glutai chart.
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And she's like, she lost, within a year, she lost 58 pounds.
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So we were just laying there. And all these women, they're in their 60s. Yeah.
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And, you know, she was, we got to talk. It would be hysterical.
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So she goes, doing my law school, she said, that was the time that Nicole and
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Anna Smith go through trials and stuff.
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She said, everybody, you never know when she's going to come to the court.
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And she goes, everybody was waiting for her to show up. And she was always late.
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She goes, when I see her, you know how she won like $100,000 or $20,000 a day
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to keep up in her daily life? I think it was $20,000 a week, yeah.
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Yeah, something like that. So her doctor, which is Rusty, asked her why does
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she need all that money, you know? And this is her lie.
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Rusty, this ain't cheap.
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It's expensive. It's expensive to be me. To be me.
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So she was like, she's my idol from that point on. That was my line.
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Every time the guy comes see her, she always tell them.
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It's expensive to be me. It's expensive to be me. It is expensive to be me.
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Yeah, expensive to be me. I'm telling you We should have that It's expensive
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to be me So the next time Some guy tries to say Oh you don't need that Say you
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know what It's expensive to be me You want me to look A certain way,
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It's expensive. I agree. And all these women, that's why they look that the way they look.
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Yes, because lots of the women out of the 20 had had different types of work, plastic surgery done.
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And it was interesting because they were very willing to share, too.
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And I think one of the nice things is, you know, we had all different types of personalities.
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Yeah. And nobody really clashed. Yeah.
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Nobody was judging each other. I think, honestly, another thing that happens
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with women in their 50s is that we get to a point where we all kind of want
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to just support each other.
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Yeah, we've done it all. Go through bad and good. From this point on, only going to be good.
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Yeah, I don't see a lot of cattiness or nastiness to each other.
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People were motivated. People wanted to learn about my water fasting,
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which was kind of interesting. Yeah.
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And wanted to see if they could do it. And some people are actually going to do it this week.
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Yeah. So I encourage people to try it out for at least a couple of days,
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see how it works for them. But it was nice.
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And then we learned about different hiking trips that people were going on and
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different procedures they've done with plastic surgery and different trips they've taken.
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And so we learned a lot about all the different people.
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And it was just, it was wonderful getting to know everybody. I know.
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You see the other club, they're doing the hiking trip coming in.
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They're going to Peru, high fly, I don't know how many days. Yeah. On the feet.
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Yes, they're going to hike through on their feet. That's how you usually hike.
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Well, I'm going to be hiding a donkey. That's not considered hiking.
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That's considered a riding trip. That's not a hiking trip.
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They said you could hide a donkey going up, but you have to walk down. I said, yeah, no.
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Walking down is actually the most scary, too, because that's how I broke my ankle. Yeah.
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I cut my foot on a root, and it broke the back ankle bone.
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So you've got to be careful going down, especially in, like,
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humid, wet areas. But anyway, so no, I think that they were great.
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And I just did too much shopping when I went to Cozumel. Oh my God.
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No, I'm so, no, we're not talking about that. Yeah. I left with two bags and I came back with seven.
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Seven bags. I took that picture. I know. Oh, my God.
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Now, granted, I didn't come back with seven suitcases. I came back with seven
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bags. So, like, smaller bags, but it was interesting.
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You should have come to the beach. It would be a lot cheaper.
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It would have been cheaper.
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I think I spent, like, almost $1,000.
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Oh, my God. The beach was 50 bucks to get. It was, like, 500 in cash and then
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a bunch of other stuff. But, you know, I've already given out all the stuff
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and everything's hanging up.
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You did? Yeah, it looked great. I thought it was christmas no this
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was just kids and friends and family
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and my god i can't mother and so you know i gave
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away everything so it's good yeah yeah so
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i'm glad you like this cruise i really enjoyed the cruise so we ended up getting
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a balcony room i don't recommend if you're going on a first cruise to get an
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inner room i think getting a balcony it's totally worth it yeah it's totally
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worth it that our balcony was so amazing it was everybody loved about it yeah
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everybody loves our balcony I did not like the room size, though.
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I would get a suite the next time. I want more space.
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No, but have you been on the balcony on the suite?
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Our balcony is better than the balcony on the suite. Well, that's true,
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but if I was in a suite, it would just be me and the kids, so. Yeah, that's true.
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But I don't mind a room because I like the balconies. I sit out there every
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morning. Or we just get the presidential suite, which has a huge balcony. That better.
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Yeah, I don't know. Yes, that would be ideal. The royal suite.
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Yeah, something like that.
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But there are so many cruises out there. And, you know, I used to go to a lot
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of different Mexico all-inclusive resorts, and I've been to many of them. And...
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I would say I like the cruise way better than going to a Mexico all-inclusive resort.
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So if you're used to going to an all-inclusive, I would say I would highly recommend doing a cruise.
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Well, when you go to all-inclusive, it's only like food and drink, right?
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Well, sometimes they have excursions, but the excursions are extra.
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Or they'll have stuff by the pool.
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They'll have like different activities by the pool. The show, right? The shows.
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And here's the thing. If you can find a place that you like to go visit,
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you can schedule everything you want to do in that one day that you're on the
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land on the cruise. And then you get to just enjoy.
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And even though it rained for the first couple days of the cruise,
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we still sat out in the hot tub. We enjoyed everyone's conversation.
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You guys ate a lot. We did eat a lot. I had five hot dogs.
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You guys ate so much food. I did because I didn't eat a bunch.
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I'm excited for the fact that you didn't gain any weight on this cruise.
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I'm telling you. I was like, holy cow. You look skinnier too today.
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I do? You do. Your face looks very thin. Non-inflamed.
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You know what I mean? Well, you got me on these fasting things.
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I'm actually fast. I only do one meal a day now. Oh, you're on OMAD.
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I'm doing OMAD, yes. And no snacking? No snacking.
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Yes! I'm so proud of you. Oh, I drink coffee, tea all morning.
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That's fine, but no sugar in the coffee. No.
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I went to the gym. You know, I eat my food.
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So when do you eat lunch or dinner? I eat like three.
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That's perfect. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I don't get too small. It's better if you stay,
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if you don't eat after the sun goes down, but it's even better if you don't
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eat after six o'clock. Your body needs that time to digest the food anyway.
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Yeah. But I felt amazing. I felt good.
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Good. I like it. Good. Mm-hmm. It'll get rid of all the inflammation in your
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joints. And you know what I noticed, though? Yeah.
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It makes me drink more water. It will. Yeah. Well, most of the time,
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I think when people think they're hungry, it's because they're actually thirsty. Yes.
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My trainer said that. Yeah. And when your stomach starts making rumblings and
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stuff, then your body, don't always your body need food.
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That means your body working something out. Yes.
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I am actually pretty glad I made it through the cruise without eating.
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Oh, my God. You know what? Every time I talk to all the ladies,
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they're still amazed how you did it.
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Really? Yeah. They want to learn from you. They were like, I don't know how
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she did it, but she did it.
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And I danced my butt off, too. Yeah, and you didn't skip any activities.
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No, I did. The first day, my stomach was a little off the first day.
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No, not the first day, the first half. The first half of the day. Right.
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My stomach was a little off, so I didn't really get going until the second day.
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And I didn't go to the beach with you guys because I ended up shopping.
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But that was the one thing I shouldn't have done is because we went shopping
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for three and a half, maybe four hours.
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And by the time I got back, my electrolytes were completely out of balance.
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Yes. And I had to like over hydrate with my, I have what's called fasting salts
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by Bulletproof. It's the company.
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You can get all kinds of fasting salts. I like the way they're balanced,
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the Bulletproof fasting salts are.
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And so I actually doubled up because I could tell my electrolytes were way off
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the balance because I was sweating a lot in Cozumel.
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Yeah, that's true. And you didn't have water with you either. I did.
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I had a couple of waters, but I went through what, four bottles of water,
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but I didn't have any electrolytes with me. Yeah, yeah.
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So you got to be careful if you're fasting and you're going on any trips.
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Whether you're with people or not. It's actually better if you're fasting to
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go on a trip with people. That way they can keep an eye on you too. Yeah.
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So this is amazing about this fasting. So last night I met up with my friend for a long time.
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And there was a lady there, her next door neighbor. She said...
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About eight years ago, she diagnosed with everything. Yeah.
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Blood pressure, sugars, all of that stuff. And then... So high blood pressure, diabetes.
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Borderline diabetes, cholesterol.
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But anyways, after her insurance dropped her, she can't afford it. Right.
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So she just did all this research. She just started drinking water only.
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So, I mean, she still eats food, but she drank, you know, the...
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I don't know how many hours did the normal size of a bottle. bottle she
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drank 12 a day so you're
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supposed to have an ounce of water for every two pounds of body weight yeah
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so this one here the eight ounce one i think the tall one yeah she drank up
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she drank about 12 a day and she says here when she just stopped taking all
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medication yeah the thing is is water is wonderful for you the number one thing
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that leads to diabetes is really soda Yeah.
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People drink so much soda. Yeah. My son went to his grandparent over the summer.
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One of my, actually both my children did.
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One of them learned what soda was because I didn't allow my teenage son to drink
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soda. We don't keep it in the house. Uh-huh.
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He ended up drinking soda for the first time at his grandparents' house,
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my ex's grandparents'. But Sprite is not so bad, no?
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Yes, it's just as bad. Oh, really? It's got so much sugar, yeah.
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How about ginger ale? It's still bad.
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Is it really? It's still bad for you. Oh, my God. So they're loaded with sugar.
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Sprite and soda and Coke. Mountain Dew is the worst, all right?
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Dr. Pepper was the worst. No, Mountain Dew is worse.
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Oh, wow. Anyway, so a can of Sprite or 21 fluid ounce Sprite has 44 grams.
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One of them, 44 grams of sugar.
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Oh, wow. You're not supposed to have over 20 to 25 grams of sugar a day.
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And there are people out there that drink a six-pack or a 12-pack of these a day.
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Go to sugar your entire day should only
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be 20 and one can has double your daily allowance oh my god or one 12 21 fluid
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ounce size cup so and that's sprite and then if you want to do Mountain Dew
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and I know we're getting on a tangent but this is kind of important Mountain
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Dew has 46 grams so a little bit more and you want a Dr. Pepper Dr.
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Pepper has and now when I say sugar
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it's not in sugar form it's in high fructose
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corn syrup which is even worse for you and so
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dr pepper has 40 grams of sugar now there are
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sodas out there that have sugar but it doesn't make it any better it's
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a diet one this is yeah so the diet one it still confuses the body to think
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it still causes an insulin response so if you're trying to lose weight and you're
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thinking i'm going to go drink a bunch of diet soda you're that sweetener in
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there is still triggering an
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insulin response in the body so anything else you eat it's going to store.
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So level six members, when we put in all kinds of these fake sugars on our coffee,
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that's still carbs. It still counts as a sugar. So you have that.
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So it's just as bad as having the sugar because you're going to eat it like a croissant or a donut.
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I know you and your donuts. Oh my God. Or a bagel and you're having it with coffee.
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So you just triggered your insulin response as if you had sugar and now your
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body's like, oh, I got to store all these carbs and they go straight to fat.
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To my offender, I haven't had donuts in Cruz. That's good. And I only have one
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little donuts. It was only a week ago.
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Diva Cat, you're like, to your credit, it's been a week.
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I love my donuts. I just need one little ball in my coffee in the morning.
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She likes balls. I love balls.
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Every time we talk about it, we always come back to balls.
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I don't get it. yes well let's not
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go there okay all right so the sugar
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on these cruises is crazy and everyone was
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overdosing on sugar everyone was drinking
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unlimited soda and that's one thing i worry about with my kids
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like the pina coladas like my son my oldest likes
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the virgin pina coladas that's full of sugar so i
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have changed up their diet now i have a teenager and i
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have a younger child and i'll just one minute on this they don't get to eat
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sugar at night no so they can have breakfast is high protein lunch they can
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have their carbs okay and dinner is high protein with some vegetables my son
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has lost eight pounds and,
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In a week. That's awesome. Isn't that crazy? Just cut down soda?
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Zero soda and high-protein breakfast, high-protein dinner.
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They can have carbs at noon. So their body has time to process the carbs out.
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And so that's the only carb meal they have is at lunch.
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Well, they're young, too. They burn very quickly. They do.
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And it's helping them gain muscle mass is the big thing. That's awesome.
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It's gotten rid of inflammation because he used to have a big thing of pasta at night.
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That's true. No more pasta at night. That is so true.
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And it's so true so yeah on these cruises you got to watch what you eat oh my god pasta.
22:44
Yeah there was a lot of pasta and pizza like you
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guys kept going back and forth for pizza because it's unlimited free pizza so
22:52
well but you know to my friends we dance our butt off we didn't eat pizza till
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after all the dance floor yeah so late late at night then you're stuffing your
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stomach full of carbohydrates it's okay though no judging because it was a cruise and a vacation,
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that's okay and you didn't get any weight i know i
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was surprised and you came out thinner your face is the inflammation
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is gone yeah a week late this is a week
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already yeah i've been inflammation's gone you're doing great i've been doing
23:19
this water thing plus i didn't have my diet coke that's true because diet coke
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causes inflammation the first day i come back though i still have diet coke
23:28
you have to be careful with those sweeteners too because some of them have been
23:31
linked to cancer. Oh, I need Diet Coke.
23:33
I actually have a shirt that says I need Diet Coke. I have a shirt that says I need agua.
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Oh, my God. That's amazing. I do look amazing, by the way. You do look great.
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No, so do you. Oh, well, thank you. Yes.
23:48
Thank you. Well, here's the trick. When you're traveling with friends,
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and I've done a lot of traveling with friends lately, which has been phenomenal.
23:56
I will say traveling with friends has been making me very happy and
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traveling with friends you've got to be careful you go with that's true
24:04
now you can travel with male friends you can
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travel with female friends both are fun in different ways and
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you need to make sure that the personalities are going to mesh because the funny
24:16
thing about traveling with a friend is all kinds of things will come up right
24:20
and if you're sleeping in the same room with a male partner whether it's a boyfriend
24:25
girlfriend or just a friend or boyfriend or a friend hopefully a male partner's not a.
24:33
A lot of men snore. And you may not know that. And then you go on a trip with
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them and you're like, oh, I can't sleep now.
24:40
No, you did not snore, Diva Cat. Well, but you bring all kinds of equipment,
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you know, the mask, the head, everything.
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You probably won't hear anything anyway. I did not bring earplugs.
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No, you didn't have earplugs? I did not bring earplugs. Did you see?
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So the other lady, she bring everything, her earplugs, her outfit.
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Yeah, I did bring eye masks. I did bring my little fluffy socks.
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Yeah. But I did not bring earplugs. I can sleep through everything, though.
25:05
So it doesn't really bother me if a person snores. Me too. But your friends could snore.
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Really? Yeah. You know, one of our friends did snore that was in our room.
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Our roomie. Our roomie. Our roomie did snore. They say our roomie.
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I didn't hear a thing. I didn't either. I only heard it after I woke up to go
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to the bathroom, and then I was like, oh, whatever.
25:24
And I went right back to sleep. I don't think I went to bed sober any night. I was drunk any night.
25:30
Were you? Oh, that one night you were so drawn. I was so drawn.
25:33
I forgot my contact lens to pull out. I even forgot my sticky bra.
25:36
And all day in the morning, I have like the circling around.
25:41
Yeah, she left her little sticky bra on and her boobs had circles on them.
25:46
That was fun. It hurts to pull them out. I said, oh my God.
25:50
Yes. You were so cute. I was like, do you need me to help you with something?
25:54
You're like, yeah. I was like, do you need one? You're like, yeah.
25:57
That was so much fun. I'll do it again. Will you?
26:00
I would. and it's nice so everything's included but the drinks are not no the
26:04
drinks are the alcoholic drinks yeah the alcohols are not i think the only thing
26:08
they give you is loaded sugar and soda,
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no that's the soda was included yeah well they give you uh iced tea coffee yeah
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iced tea coffee those basic things are included but yeah they give you soda
26:22
but they won't give you they don't give you alcohol and they won't even give
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you bottled water like i was drinking a lot of pellegrino and a lot of sparkling
26:29
water and a lot of Evian and stuff.
26:31
I noticed those are five bucks. Yeah, it was expensive.
26:34
I ordered a case ahead of time and the water was extra.
26:38
So remember that you're going to have to pay for that. You can bring a few bottles
26:42
typically on the trip with you, depending on what cruise line you're on.
26:46
And then you just need to make sure. Now, I recommend taking an extra suitcase
26:51
if you're going shopping. because I could have combined all seven bags or all
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five bags into one suitcase.
26:58
So next time I will probably take extra luggage so that I can just,
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it's easier to roll out and they can just stuff stuff in bags.
27:06
Right, and they don't charge you for luggage.
27:08
And they don't charge you for luggage. Well, they probably do if it's excessive.
27:11
And I'll probably go for longer.
27:13
I will go for longer and I'll have a couple stops. Oh, okay.
27:17
Yeah, I think I might go for longer.
27:20
Some friendships don't survive trips like this.
27:24
Sometimes people get so annoyed with people that they just don't survive.
27:27
Well, we're still talking after all this time. Yeah, it was fun.
27:31
We still drop a hint for it. I mean, not a lot, but we still say hi every morning.
27:35
And I think you can create a bond between people that you'll have forever.
27:39
I mean, I feel like I created a bond with a woman I just met at the pool for
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two hours. I know, right?
27:45
Yeah. I did create a bond with that woman about, you know, Rusty and Spencer.
27:50
I'm still talking to her until now. So I would say you got to plan everything in advance.
27:54
So pre-trip planning is essential. Now, we had a great travel agent.
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Oh, my God. Can we say what company she works for? Yeah, she works for Dynamic
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Travel. Dynamic Travel, and her name is Samantha.
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We're not going to give you her last name, but she planned it for us. And she was amazing.
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And so she planned everything. Everything was set up and booked.
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And it was affordable. And I think she got us better rates than we would have gotten on our own.
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So a lot of people for cruises, guys.
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Now, I'm a person that likes to go book my own airfare. I just I need the control.
28:27
But for a cruise, I want a travel agent. So if a travel agent can go ahead and
28:32
book my trip, I'm all for that.
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And I really recommend that people use travel agents for cruises.
28:38
Because you'll get a better rate, potentially, and everything will just go much smoother. Oh, my gosh.
28:44
She light up hours on the hour since the day we left the house.
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Yeah. She asked, we come back. Even the parking way to park.
28:52
Yeah. We have great cruise there. It was a great cruise. Yeah.
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We just booked it with her. She planned our Alaska cruise. Yes.
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Summer of 2026. That's wonderful.
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Yeah. 17 cabins already booked. Yes. Seventeen families. That's wonderful.
29:11
You know, I recommend if you're going on a cruise, though, that you set away
29:14
some time for yourself to have some alone solo time.
29:18
Oh, yeah. You can't be with your friends the whole time. No.
29:21
It would be overwhelming.
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Yeah. It's too much. So have your own gym time or go to yoga or do some meditation.
29:28
Otherwise, it gets overwhelming, especially with large groups of people.
29:31
Yeah. In the morning, though, I always like my own time.
29:34
Yes. I get my coffee at 6 a.m., sit in my balcony.
29:38
I drink my coffee from 6 to 7. 7 to 8, I get my clothes.
29:43
I dress up with workout clothes, go to the gym store around.
29:45
And then there's charges, too. you have to be aware of. Charge it for what?
29:50
So if you order like the steak or the lobster or alcohol, like they have alcohol
29:56
packages that you have to be aware of. Yeah.
29:59
So if you want to purchase an alcohol package, you can. If you want to purchase
30:03
a specialty drink program, you can.
30:05
They have different things you can purchase and then different foods. Yeah.
30:09
But I only have like one drink a night. And the drink is same thing online, like $14.
30:14
Bucks you know yeah and i think it was like 35 bucks a
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day if you wanted unlimited or something it wasn't it wasn't crazy although
30:22
i can imagine people paying that and then just getting sloshed well did a lot
30:26
of people getting sloshed number one you don't have to drive number two you
30:30
don't have to think number three you don't have to think one of the things i
30:34
didn't like is there were smokers on the cruise yeah there's only one they do
30:38
have the smoking session but come on guys.
30:41
It's open air. It should be fresh.
30:43
And then you walk through it, you smell all this smoke. Yeah.
30:46
So there was a smoking section as well as there was a casino. That smoke.
30:50
And the casino is smoking, yes. Yeah.
30:52
So, yeah, that's the only thing I don't like. And then you have to decide if
30:55
you're going to split things 50-50, if there's any extra expenses or people
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are just going to pay on their own accounts.
31:01
I highly recommend just paying your own account. Yeah. I would do that, too.
31:04
Yeah. Yeah. And then there's also the tip fee.
31:08
I know. So at the very end, what happens is you get charged a daily tip fee.
31:13
And then, remember this, if you go shopping, not to spend all your money because
31:17
they also recommend you give additional tip to whoever was waiting on you at your tables.
31:23
So the additional tip was interesting. So you need to make sure you have enough cash for that.
31:28
So bring some cash. Don't forget to bring cash.
31:31
And it'll depend on how much you want to shop as well as how much you're going
31:34
to save for the tip. That's true, too.
31:38
I check on the oh and shopping every night I love those $10 table,
31:43
oh yes she likes to gamble oh my god I love it yes so she went she went gambling
31:49
while I went to bed because I had I had enough by 10 o'clock I was it was my
31:52
bedtime no I like my blackjack and that's the only time I get to play yeah.
31:58
Well, I had a good time. It was nice. And they do have things for singles.
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I didn't go, but they do have, like, single mixers.
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Oh, yeah, that's true. At the Bamboo Lounge. Yeah, I wasn't really feeling it. No, yeah.
32:13
I'd rather just dance by myself, honestly. I don't want to go on a cruise and
32:17
meet somebody because, well, although that one would have been okay because
32:20
it was mostly people from our state.
32:22
But I just, I don't know. Well, my friend and her family are about to go on
32:27
this luxurious cruise over the Mediterranean.
32:32
Yeah. And that, when you want to go on a single.
32:35
That could be. Yes. That one could be.
32:38
So you have to make sure that you communicate well with the group, too.
32:42
And we had a group chat going on for everybody. We were all texting each other and keeping up to date.
32:47
And then you also have the ability to purchase Wi-Fi or not.
32:52
And I recommend it. But then again, I like to keep my electronics going.
32:56
And that way you can communicate better with the group as well. I feel the best.
33:02
I divorced my phone for the whole week. Yeah, she took the week off and she
33:06
seemed the most stress-free out of everyone.
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I love it. Our other friend slept with her phone.
33:11
Oh, my God, yes. And also had to video everything. And it was getting a little
33:16
uncomfortable for me. Yeah.
33:17
That's why I just kind of like checked out a little bit. It was too much.
33:20
Too much. And another thing, I mean, between friends, though,
33:23
if you video and you decide to post all those videos, just make sure not only you that look good.
33:29
Make sure everybody on your video looks good or make sure they're okay with it.
33:34
Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah.
33:37
Don't tag people unless they've given you approval to tag them. Right.
33:41
They don't want to see videos sometimes. And, you know, you might get people
33:44
in awkward situations, too.
33:46
So just be careful with that. I left my phone for the whole week.
33:50
Yes, it was nice. It was great. You know, it was all a bunch of groups of women
33:54
and nobody was gossiping about anyone.
33:56
No, I know, right? It was all women. And I know they say women gossip,
34:00
but we weren't gossiping. No, we weren't gossiping. It was educational conversations.
34:03
And we would just talk to anybody. I talked to this guy on the hot top.
34:07
You know, I have decided that you are a connector.
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Me? There's actually a type of personality. There's leaders,
34:14
there's followers, there's connectors, there's different types of people. And you are a connector.
34:19
You will take one person, you will put them with another person and put them together.
34:24
And that's an amazing skill to have. It's a huge skill.
34:28
And I just watch you do it over and over again. And I was like,
34:31
she's a perfect connector.
34:33
Somebody has a need, you find the person they need to go to and you connect them.
34:38
I didn't even realize. If you ever want a business idea, you are a perfect connector.
34:44
Concierges do that sometimes, but you're at such a higher level than a concierge.
34:49
You're amazing. You connected me with the bodybuilder woman.
34:52
That is so true. Because I'm an introvert.
34:54
And I was like sitting over there by myself. I walked by her.
34:57
I smiled. And then you forced her upon me.
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I know. And you connected me with her. And it's, don't get me wrong.
35:04
I'm glad you did. it's just I am not as
35:07
outgoing in public situations as you
35:10
are and you are amazing at meeting people and connecting
35:13
them oh thank you you are welcome I
35:16
like that yep that's there's actually a term for it's
35:18
called connector and it's amazing connectors tend
35:22
to be the people that run everything from behind the
35:25
scenes really yes oh wow yeah
35:28
so you're you're have more power than the people up front
35:30
oh i did it i love her bathing suit that's why
35:33
i wonder how much that was it was a very shiny bathing
35:36
suit oh i'm getting one yes her bathing suit
35:39
and she had the scarf that mesh her flower that met
35:42
i was like she was so pretty oh and she's not no done no work on her face either
35:47
yeah i was like this is my type woman this is me when i'm that age yeah i love
35:52
that bathing suit yeah you know what she's inspired i might be go from this
35:56
bikini because how much i love bikini What was your favorite night of the cruise?
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The favorite night? The Latin night. The favorite night?
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It's the formal. You know what I mean? I love the lifestyle.
36:05
My favorite night was the formal. We got all bougie. We got all bougie.
36:08
You look just like Mary Monroe.
36:10
Marilyn Monroe. We did Marilyn Monroe poses.
36:12
Oh, my God. It was very bougie. Do you even do the happy birthday, Mr. President? I did.
36:17
Oh, my God. I posted on Instagram, happy birthday, Mr. President.
36:21
And you look just like Marilyn Monroe, even the whole outfit.
36:24
No, she doesn't have curly hair like mine. No. Uh-huh.
36:28
No. No, yeah, is that so true? If you blow dry your hands out?
36:32
We're going to do that one day. Oh, my goodness. We were doing it.
36:35
Oh, my goodness. I'm still doing that. Yeah, that's my favorite night, the formal night.
36:38
Yeah. I love, you know, me, all the glamorous. I wear all my jewelry.
36:42
I was, I'm still mad that I forgot my chandelier choker.
36:46
So I had to wear the small. That's okay. That's okay. You know,
36:49
I was, I was shocked that nobody got drunk and got in an argument or anything.
36:53
Oh, I know, right? No one got, nobody got, you were tipsy, but you weren't drunk.
36:58
No, you weren't that drunk.
37:00
I've seen a lot worse. You were tipsy. Oh, I was doing that Latin dance.
37:04
You know, me, Latin is my jam. Latin is your jam. You're dancing really well.
37:08
I love it. Although every part of the trip has been recorded.
37:13
So I'm sitting here, I'm like, oh, wow. I'm like, can't you just experience and enjoy?
37:20
I know. I leave your phone alone. Leave it alone. I record everything, you know? Yeah.
37:27
Can you tell I was getting annoyed by the end? Yes, I can tell you're getting
37:30
annoyed. But you know what? We all did okay together.
37:32
Oh, yeah. We did. We did okay. You know, and the rooms are kind of small.
37:36
So I would say let's get a bigger room next time. Yeah. Yep.
37:42
I had to say I like a balcony, but I would prefer the balcony with the bigger room. How's that?
37:49
Well, I'm sure there's different depending on where you get in the boat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
37:53
That room is technically for two people. It is. It is. You know?
37:57
Yeah. I think you and I, though, as well, we're more go-of-the-flow types of people.
38:03
Oh, amazing. I mean, we got to the room and we were like on our beds, relaxing.
38:08
And our bunkmate, because we got three people in one room, wanted to organize the whole room.
38:14
And I was like, we just got here. I don't need to put everything away.
38:17
I just want to sit on it. I just drove six hours.
38:20
I'm just laying my butt on this bed. I am not putting stuff away.
38:24
I know. I was like, oh, no, I'm a go-with-the-flow person.
38:29
I was like, one, they start, like, unpacking, put all the stuff in the cabinet,
38:33
like, fill up the whole thing.
38:35
I was like, I'm not doing this. I just take off my shoes and leave behind.
38:38
I was just happy I got to sleep. I know. I slept really well.
38:42
I was worried about you, actually. Why?
38:43
Because it's your first cruise. I don't know.
38:46
Everybody worries about me.
38:47
I don't need to be. I'm tough. And then you have to go get that coffee.
38:52
Yes, I had coffee, and the coffee was bad. Yeah.
38:55
I think they were not ready. The coffee was bad. I don't think it wasn't hot.
38:59
Yeah. And I get sensitive with stuff, too. And then you have to worry about
39:02
people that are early risers versus night owls. You're more of a night owl.
39:06
I'm not real. On cruise, I kind of slept in, too. I don't think I got up until like eight.
39:10
You guys, you were up early and you were out late. So I was amazed you didn't
39:15
need more sleep personally. I came home. I slept late.
39:19
My sweet husband would let me sleep till he didn't wake me up.
39:23
By the time I woke up, it was already 10 a.m. Really? Mm-hmm.
39:26
Well, you also slept in the car right there and the car right back.
39:31
I was like, she's out. Yeah.
39:35
I love not to drive. Thank you. Thank you for driving. So I will take my nap.
39:39
Oh, I didn't drive. Yeah, right. The car drove, right?
39:43
Yeah. It was fun. Yeah. And then you have to worry about the introvert versus
39:48
the social butterfly. You're a social butterfly.
39:50
Oh, I love it. I talk to the wall. I talk to anybody. You talk to everyone.
39:53
And I'm more of an introvert.
39:54
And I was, I talked to the people in our group, but I didn't really go outside
39:58
of our group and talk to a lot of people. Oh, I talked to everybody.
40:00
I know you did. I talked to the guy at the bar.
40:02
I found out these two kids from, they're all from Houston.
40:06
I think that's, so everyone I talk to there, they're either from Houston, like locally.
40:12
They said they do this every weekend. They said it's actually cheaper to get
40:15
on a cruise than go around the state in town. Wow. Yeah.
40:20
That's interesting. Yeah. So I talk to these two kids.
40:24
They're young. They're probably in their 20-something, you know. They have all alcohol.
40:27
They're like, yeah, they're actually for us to just get on a cruise and party,
40:32
drinking, don't have to worry, drunk driving, any of that.
40:37
Then hang out in town,
40:39
Well, and they probably cruise so much that they get discounts and everything else.
40:43
Yeah, they were like, you know, nowadays, just to go to the town,
40:47
dinner, drinking for the night, bar, and then you got to worry about Uber,
40:50
back and forth, at least $200, $300.
40:53
And for $500, they could probably do a cruise. Mm-hmm.
40:56
Yeah. Yeah, and if they cruise so much, they probably get all kinds of discounts.
41:00
Yeah, discounts, yeah. Yeah.
41:02
So cruises don't have to be super expensive. That was another misnomer that
41:05
I thought. I thought that I incorrectly believed that cruises were expensive. And they aren't.
41:13
Well, the one we go, we go very butted. And you go very expensive,
41:16
too, though. I do? As a luxury cruise.
41:18
Well, yes. But we were on a Royal Caribbean. Yeah. And it was still a nice cruise.
41:24
Very reasonable. It was very reasonable. And we all had a good time.
41:28
I just love it. Everybody start dancing. Remember the light dancing?
41:31
Yes, that was fun, too. And then the 80s dancing. The 80s. I was doing a little
41:35
bit of moonwalking and flip-flops. It's really hard to do, by the way.
41:41
Moonwalking and flip-flops. And flip-flops is not easy.
41:44
You know, these people could dress the way you want it. Like at 89, the disco night.
41:49
Yeah, people really went out. They knew the themes per night,
41:52
so they would dress up. You see how many slats we saw?
41:55
He looked just like slats, you know, for a lot.
41:58
With his hair in the hat. I was like, hmm.
42:01
That's when family dressed up as a whole pirate, as a whole cruise.
42:05
I did like the Hawaiian night, too. That was fun. Yeah, the tropical night.
42:07
I liked that one, too. Yeah.
42:09
So, yeah. And then when you go out with friends, you need to make sure that
42:12
you don't get too testy. I think sometimes people get testy.
42:16
And you just have to realize you're in an enclosed space. Everybody's a little different.
42:22
And we just have to stay calm. Yeah. I'm really happy.
42:26
And you were helping out with the birthday because there were birthdays.
42:29
A couple actually four people had birthdays during the the month of the month
42:34
that we went on the cruise so we were celebrating four different birthdays and
42:37
you were like instrumental in helping coordinate and plan all that too yeah it was fun it was fun,
42:42
Yes. That's fun. Now, if you get sick on the cruise, they do have a doctor that you can go to.
42:49
They do have sales of different types of alcohol, jewelry, that type of stuff.
42:54
A lot of the places have stores, all kinds of food. I mean, I can't believe
42:59
how much food they have on a cruise.
43:01
Somebody said they take like seven to 10 pounds of food a day per person.
43:06
Well, that includes drinks, too. But if you think about it, that's a lot of
43:10
food. Yeah. And they have to prepare it in a way that no one gets sick.
43:14
Right. Not only that, all the food coming out at the same time. Did you see? Mm-hmm.
43:18
The food all came at the same time. And then, you know, some of these people
43:22
are on these cruises for months at a time.
43:24
The waitstaffs, you have to take care of them, too. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
43:29
There's a couple. I think it was on the—I Googled it.
43:34
After they retired, they sold everything, and they lived on the cruise ship
43:37
for, like, two years. Really? They went from cruise to cruise to cruise.
43:40
That's interesting. Isn't it interesting? Yeah, that would be kind of fun.
43:44
I just, I think I need some more land time than that.
43:46
Well, they did not do the whole time, though. You know, like...
43:48
Oh, they took some time. Yeah. Yeah.
43:52
I would get, I think, a little aggravated being confined for that long. Yeah. Yeah, I know.
43:58
I did seven days. It was fun. We took all the kids, remember?
44:01
It was the best Christmas ever. You don't have to worry. It was the best Christmas gift.
44:05
Yeah. You don't have to worry to go buy...
44:08
Give or anything i think that's a nice gift once the kids no longer believe in santa.
44:14
If they stop believing in santa then you can take them but if there's
44:17
if santa's still coming you're not taking him on a cruise yeah well i had a
44:21
teenager so yes yeah and and this is about creating memories too memories i
44:28
do like our picture our formal pictures i don't mind posing once in a while
44:32
for a picture i just don't want to pose every five minutes for pictures or video I know.
44:37
So I did like our group pictures.
44:40
One thing I would recommend is like we have like a Facebook page next time where
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we can post all the pictures so that they're all there and people can download what they want.
44:48
Oh, you know what? That's a good idea.
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Otherwise, they're in multiple text messages and all over the place.
44:54
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll do a Facebook page better.
44:56
Yeah, and tap. And then people can communicate better and everything else. That's true. I agree.
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And you can store the pictures. You can actually organize them.
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If you have the same group going, you could actually organize them by trip.
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Yeah. And then it's more like a photo album in one place instead of in text messages.
45:13
I like that idea. I like it better, too. Yeah. Especially if you're traveling
45:16
with the same groups of people.
45:17
Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, that group can grow and shrink depending on
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who's going on what cruises.
45:22
Why don't you go ahead and start that group? You're going to make me do it, aren't you?
45:27
You're better on that. You know, I'm the connector. I'm the connector. I'm the techie.
45:33
I'm the introverted techie you're the connector I'm the connector now I can
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connect you with anybody you want you know I am grateful that you connected
45:41
me with all those 20 women,
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See, you connect me with some wonderful ladies, very professional,
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all super nice. Yeah, no drama. No drama. No.
45:51
All staring. They all wanted to put sunscreen on me.
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They're like, I think they were like, you're white. You need sunscreen.
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And I was like, no, I'm good. You know, I can't remember us. We are Asian.
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We're very, very protecting us. I know, but it was so funny.
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They were all afraid for me and i was the only one that didn't burn everybody
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else came in pretty red and i was like i didn't have any sunscreen on and i
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didn't get a burn at all one of the ladies she constantly put in on like every
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five minutes like okay she had a whole bag full of stuff,
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protection she's still burned she's and she's still burned because she's so
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full with chemicals there's actually a belief system that the more you use the
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worse it is for your skin And her shoulder was raw. I know.
46:38
Oh. And I said, I'll put coconut oil on.
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So I was like putting straight coconut oil on, totally frying myself.
46:46
And I came back with a beautiful tan.
46:48
Yeah. Oh, that was funny. That was a funny one. She's the one with more sunscreen.
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I was either nothing or coconut oil. And I was like, perfect.
46:58
Yeah. She's the one with more sunscreen.
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And the tip of my nose was raw and both shoulder was raw. And she's like,
47:04
you want some SPF? I go, no, I don't use it.
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And everybody was so shocked because everybody kept trying to put SPF on me.
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It was kind of as bad as the waiters trying to feed me.
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I did eat your pasta. You did. Yeah. It was so good. Oh, that's right.
47:20
I got pasta, too. I had salmon.
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I got pasta. And I got ice cream.
47:25
And I was water fasting, so it all went to the table.
47:30
And I felt so bad, but I let them go ahead and bring it. And then I was like,
47:34
okay, here you go, guys. Mm-hmm.
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That was fun. That was fun. And then I think we just, you know,
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if you could take a step back and understand, you know, your role is just to
47:44
get along and have fun and enjoy.
47:46
So, I mean, you're lucky to go on a cruise. I mean, we're so lucky in this country.
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We should be grateful for all the great experiences we get to have.
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It's a blessing. Yeah. It's opening up your heart. And we're so,
47:58
I'm so grateful for all those ladies.
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And I'm so grateful for our cruise director. Yes. She paired.
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She grouped the room. She's like, perfectly. She did. And I kind of came in
48:09
at the end, like, I don't know, what, two months?
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Before you guys went on the cruise, like, you want to go? I'm like, sure, what the heck.
48:15
I'm like, you can be all Asian. You only live once. And I was, oh, I'm the only blonde.
48:22
Actually, I texted a picture of you, the one that you're the only blonde.
48:27
And you always get to be in the black hole. You're the tallest one on this show.
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I was the tallest one, yes.
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So my friend asked, is that the tall blonde lady back there?
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Is out of your social media or in your photographer or something.
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I was like, no, she's our friend. I'm 5'4 and I was the tallest one.
48:45
You know, I'm there for 11, so I can't say. Yeah, I would say the dancing was fun.
48:49
I would say my favorite part was the comedy show was actually pretty good,
48:53
too. Oh, I like that one, too.
48:54
There was an adult comedy club, the comedian that came on the last night,
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the night before. He was pretty funny.
49:00
He was, it was more interesting for people that were couples,
49:04
but it was still funny to listen to.
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What men do and what women don't, and what women do was nice.
49:09
Yeah, I like the ice skate one, too.
49:11
I did not see the ice skating. I went back. But that was on the first night.
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Yeah. Yeah, you were out. I was like zonked. All the shows are nice,
49:19
actually. The shows are nice. They have magic shows. They have dancing.
49:23
And I think downtime, though, is so crucial.
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You can go for massages. They do have a spa on the cruise as well.
49:31
She just said she doesn't recommend the spa. I'm not recommending the spa either.
49:35
Because, you know, it's like going to a hotel spa.
49:37
A lot of times they're overpriced and you don't get the best service. No.
49:40
But when you land at different places, too, you can also go for massages there.
49:44
Oh, no, I forgot to tell you.
49:46
When we get to Mexico, remember the $20 massage is not there anymore.
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That's okay. There was a person there offering it for $50.
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Yeah. We just didn't make it back because we shopped too much. Right.
49:55
So be careful when you're shopping. That was another thing is that,
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you know, you think if you get away from the main touristy area that you'll
50:02
be able to get a better deal, but it wasn't that way. It wasn't that,
50:04
no. It was about the same. Yeah.
50:06
So we walked all over and we got about the same.
50:09
I mean, it was a couple dollars here and there different on different items,
50:12
But we got pretty much the same stuff no matter where you went.
50:15
So you can actually, when you get off the cruise, there's usually like a touristy area.
50:20
They had better prices. Well, they had prices that were exactly what I got negotiated
50:25
in other places. Like I had a hard negotiate in other places.
50:29
Like because everywhere else they were double. So I cut everything in half or less then.
50:35
And it was the same prices if we would have just stayed in the touristy area.
50:39
I have the sweetest sister in Lotto, I have to say. You have the what?
50:43
When we went to Mexico...
50:45
Yeah. You know, I loved eating fish, the whole fried fish, so I ordered that.
50:49
But I don't want to touch the fish. My sister peeled the whole thing for me and feed me.
50:54
That was nice. I'm telling you. Was that this trip? Yeah, when we both go to the beach.
50:59
That's nice. Yeah. Because it came in with the skin and the eyeballs and everything.
51:03
Everything, yeah. Yeah, they do that in other countries.
51:05
Yeah. I love those, but I just don't want to touch it. And how is the beach?
51:09
Oh, the beach, I would give it a five. A five? Yeah, from 1 to 10, I would get a 5. Yeah.
51:16
Yeah, no. But I'm surprisingly, you know, I'm a bathroom phobia.
51:22
The bathroom was amazing, nice and clean. Yeah. Yeah. At the hotel? No, at the beach.
51:27
Oh, there was a public beach bathroom? There was a facility there,
51:31
bathroom. It was amazing. That's nice. Yeah.
51:34
But I'm not recommending shopping. The shopping team seems like they overpriced
51:38
it. Yeah, the shopping, it's funny because I think with everybody getting cheap
51:43
goods out of like other locations now, Mexico is not so cheap anymore.
51:47
Although I did like going to the pharmacy.
51:49
Oh, yeah. Yes, I did pick up stuff at the pharmacy. Yeah, I bought this fishbone
51:53
caught like a lizard, remember?
51:55
Mm-hmm. My son loves it.
51:58
Yes. I love getting little gifts for people. Me too. I'm a gifter. Yeah.
52:03
So next time I saw the dragon's one, now I'm like, hey, I should have got two.
52:07
They were only 20 bucks. Now, I do recommend if you get off the boat to try the local food.
52:12
Oh, yeah. We went to this beautiful restaurant. It was off the beaten path,
52:16
way off the beaten path. Mm-hmm. And you walked in, and it looked like Hawaii.
52:20
It had palm trees. It had beautiful architecture inside.
52:26
And the person I was with got, it was an avocado shrimp dish.
52:32
And she was expecting it to be fried. And I was so happy it wasn't because I
52:36
don't eat fried food. And I was watching her eat as I was water fasting still.
52:41
And it was like a shrimp cocktail, but with avocado. It was beautiful.
52:46
And it had probably 20 shrimp and was eight bucks.
52:50
Really? I was like, that was worth it. And she said it was delicious too.
52:54
So you got to be careful with where you're going to eat. Make sure it looks clean.
52:58
I always like to check the bathrooms because if the bathrooms are clean,
53:01
the food, the restaurants are usually pretty clean.
53:04
So it was beautiful to go into this place. and
53:07
experience and the food I will say the
53:10
smells I do like Mexican food it was a
53:13
little tough to smell all that but it's okay you know it's I also don't drink
53:18
anymore right so I've given up drinking too so giving up food is kind of similar
53:24
to that honestly because if you give up drinking it's like well drinking is
53:28
actually easier yeah no does the smells bother you though,
53:32
They don't, but they do remind me of certain things I liked. Oh, okay.
53:36
Yeah. So, like, I'm going to go on another trip to Hawaii, and I know exactly
53:39
what I'm going to eat when I get there because I've been there many times.
53:43
And I want certain things at certain restaurants. And now I just plan out what
53:48
I want on this trip because there's just a couple places I have to go.
53:54
And I may fast on this trip.
53:56
I'm not going to fast for 30 days, but I might have, like, eat one day and not
54:00
eat the next day. like every other day just because I'm coming off such a long
54:04
fast because it'll be a 30-day fast when I'm done.
54:07
So the first day you drink broth only when you come out?
54:11
The first yeah on day 31 I'll just do drink broth and then add the next day
54:17
I'll add broth it might have like an egg or some little bit of protein and then
54:21
the next day I'll have broth and some veggies and protein and then I can start building up.
54:26
Small small small yeah. You eat small because you need to make sure that you
54:30
don't mess up your kidneys or your gallbladder or your liver.
54:34
And your stomach's got to start processing again, right? I'm excited.
54:38
Yeah. I'm excited for you. Why?
54:42
Because after so long, it's such a reward. You look amazing,
54:45
by the way. Oh, thank you. But I'm going to be doing another one.
54:47
No, again? Another one in June, yeah. I'm committed to healing my liver, so this is my journey.
54:53
That's awesome. That's so awesome. Yeah, this, I was going to go 60 straight,
54:59
60 days straight, but I thought, why don't I take a couple weeks off and re-nutrient
55:03
myself and then do another 30?
55:05
That's awesome. Yeah, it feels good. I enjoy it. I really enjoy fasting.
55:11
It makes you feel in control of your life, too. It makes you get,
55:15
and I have more mental clarity.
55:18
And I will say day 25 was rough. When I came back, a few days later,
55:23
I was at the gym working out, and I don't know what it is about day 25 for me.
55:28
Every time, right around day 25, I have a day where I'm just exhausted.
55:33
Even lifting weights was hard, and I was just exhausted.
55:37
And I went to the gym still, and I worked out with my trainer,
55:41
but it was as if I had suffered days, and it was tough.
55:47
But I don't know what day 25 is, for something happens always around day 25.
55:50
But today is day 27, and I feel amazing. There's only three days left.
55:54
Actually, by the end of the day, it'll be, yeah. It'll be two days.
55:58
Two more days, yes. So 28 is actually today.
56:00
Yeah, 29, 30. So tomorrow and on the, okay. I'm eating on Thursday.
56:05
So, yeah. Oh, this Thursday. So Tuesday, Wednesday. So today's halfway over.
56:10
It's Monday. So Tuesday and Wednesday, and then I'll eat Thursday.
56:14
That's awesome. That's awesome. Such an accomplishment.
56:17
It makes you feel powerful. It does. I've done a 40 day before as well.
56:21
That was my longest before.
56:23
30 is good. I could do another 40, but then I think I'm done.
56:28
Oh, and if anybody wanted to know, I've lost the...
56:31
Was it 24 pounds? I feel like you lost 50. No. That's what my trainer said.
56:35
He says, you look really good. I go, well, because I'm still lifting weights.
56:38
I'm still working out. I feel like I've actually gained muscle mass.
56:41
I mean, I haven't seen you only a week.
56:44
He says that every time he sees me, my face just gets smaller.
56:47
My whole body gets smaller. Yeah. And I feel like you lost at least 50 pounds.
56:51
Well, you have a lot of muscle, too. Only that you're very solid.
56:54
I do have a lot of muscle, yeah.
56:57
So, that's amazing. Amazing, amazing. Yeah. He thinks I have like 10 pounds
57:02
left to go. I think so, too. I agree.
57:06
Well, if I only have 10 pounds, I can't do another 30-day fast.
57:10
You're blown away. Yeah. You've got to start eating good.
57:14
Yeah. No, it's, well, here's the thing. When you go off the water fast,
57:18
you gain about 5 to 10 pounds back. So I'll have that to lose as well.
57:22
Yeah, but you lose it continuously.
57:24
No, I'm going to gain 10 pounds back, and then it'll start coming off again.
57:27
Well, you can 10 pounds back and then you still do your OMAD every other day and you come right out.
57:33
Yeah. You know? No, it's good. I'm not about the weight loss, though.
57:38
This is not about weight loss. Yeah. This is about healing my whole body.
57:41
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
57:43
And it's spiritual. So if you ever decide to do it, I kind of recommend doing
57:46
it on a trip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you can manage.
57:50
Now, you're going to have to have some willpower.
57:52
Right. Because you're going to have all your friends eating around you.
57:55
Mm-hmm. And some of them won't understand.
57:59
So don't do it on your first two or three days or you'll break.
58:02
You got to do it when you're like 15, 20, 25 days in and then you're not going to break.
58:07
I have to say, though, at this group, even with 20 ladies, everybody under it.
58:11
Yeah, nobody forced food on me. No. Yeah, they were all very respectful.
58:15
I really enjoyed going out with these groups of ladies. Yeah.
58:18
I think that's why on a lot of these cruises you see so many women groups.
58:24
Because at our age, we just want to go have fun. I know. Did you notice that
58:28
too? Yeah. So many women groups, they just like take a break.
58:32
And you know the best part, it's the best Mother's Day gift ever.
58:38
Yeah. Because on your mother's day, you wake up, you have a room service,
58:42
your coffee ready, you have to do a thing.
58:44
You don't have to do any of that. And she loved getting her room service,
58:47
too. I love my room service. She pre-ordered room service for the whole week.
58:51
I love it. I want my coffee right at 6 a.m. And it showed up every day at 6
58:56
a.m. It showed up on the nose.
58:57
And then they make these cute little towels that look like animals.
59:00
Oh, my God. I took pictures out of them. Yeah. That I did. Well,
59:03
I would say if you're single and you're looking to find a partner,
59:06
this is not the type of cruise for you. No.
59:09
This was more of a let's go hang out with the girls because I would say there were a lot of families.
59:15
There were a lot of gay men and there were a lot of female groups.
59:20
There were not a lot of single people.
59:23
I mean, I didn't go to the single event, so I don't really know. But I don't know.
59:28
I didn't see a lot of guy groups. I didn't see any guy groups, actually.
59:31
No. So I don't think guys go on cruises like this. So if you're looking for
59:36
that, you might want to select a singles cruise specifically.
59:39
Yeah. If you're looking to find a partner. Yeah, yeah.
59:43
But I love this. I love. I just love how we sit down and dance.
59:46
Well, you could just get up and dance everywhere.
59:48
You could. And we did dance everywhere. I know. And the Latin dance was my jam.
59:52
And remember the girl? She just teached out the whole dance.
59:55
You know, the other thing I found interesting is everybody was there to have fun. Yeah.
59:59
And I know recently in the news there's been like cruise fights and stupid stuff
1:00:04
where people have gotten kicked off cruises. But.
1:00:07
I didn't see any of that. And I was out there dancing, and nobody wanted to
1:00:12
dance with me in the group of 20 that you could tell they were all in their food coma.
1:00:15
Yeah. So I went and found another group of people that I didn't know and just
1:00:19
stayed in our dancing with them. Yeah.
1:00:21
Everybody went back to the room, took a nap while you were dancing. While I was dancing?
1:00:26
Yeah, on the 80s night. Oh, yeah. I danced for three hours.
1:00:30
Yeah, because that night was only the night we come back from the beach.
1:00:33
It was the night before. Yeah, it was.
1:00:35
Yeah, you guys were tired. I was like, I'm ready to go again.
1:00:38
I was so excited. You were tired. Oh, my God. I took my electrolytes and I was set.
1:00:44
That's all the nutrition I needed. But I still made myself stay up to eat pizza.
1:00:49
Yes, you guys ate so much pizza. We love pizza.
1:00:53
I wonder why. Is that pizza really good there? Oh, my God. Yes.
1:00:56
I wonder if they use different ingredients.
1:00:58
I don't know, but it's super thin, thin, thin crust. Oh, I love it.
1:01:02
I love it. I love it. I could taste it right now. Yeah.
1:01:05
Anyway. I think it was good for all. I think everyone had a great time. I love it.
1:01:10
I think it is highly recommended to go on a cruise. And I think maybe one day
1:01:15
I'll see you on a cruise again.
1:01:16
I'm telling you guys, if you want to look for a gift for your ladies on Mother's
1:01:21
Day, that is the best. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
1:01:25
Well, would you recommend going with your husband or would you recommend going in a group of ladies?
1:01:30
I would prefer ladies for Mother's Day. Yeah. And I would wake up with my husband,
1:01:34
I would do more adventurous cruise.
1:01:37
Yeah. I think what would be nice because is to take the whole family on Mother's
1:01:42
Day, especially if you have younger kids. If the kids are in...
1:01:46
College then yes you can well i have a teenager kid
1:01:49
yeah yeah so for me if i'm
1:01:52
gonna do and my husband cannot just sit
1:01:55
in a hot tub and bullshitting not like me you know he has
1:01:58
to go jump off the cliff everywhere yeah diva cat
1:02:01
was talking to everyone diva cat was getting
1:02:04
hit on telling you we were all we
1:02:08
were like oh my gosh diva cat's just talking to everybody oh and
1:02:10
this guys hitting on diva cat she doesn't even realize it yeah she
1:02:14
was totally clueless and
1:02:17
we were all like well he was indeed she's like what are you talking about he was
1:02:20
telling me like he have a he had i mean he used to have 200 acres and then the
1:02:25
white the xy took half now he only have 100 acres yeah he made sure to tell
1:02:29
her how much stuff he had and that he was divorced oh my god and he's divorced
1:02:33
that was a sign diva cat whenever you have a man bragging about everything they have,
1:02:39
and then pointing out that they have an XY or that they're divorced,
1:02:44
that's a sign they're hitting on you. Just saying.
1:02:46
Oh, my God. Now you realize it? Now you tell me.
1:02:52
So, ladies out there, if you're ever on a cruise or a trip and somebody is hitting
1:02:56
on you, it's a sign if they start talking about, especially men.
1:03:00
Men love to brag about all the stuff they have, whether it's property or where
1:03:04
their job is or how much they have or what they do for a living.
1:03:08
If they start bragging about all that stuff and then
1:03:11
they oh they drop a line that oh yes my wife passed or
1:03:14
i'm divorced or whatever that means they're hitting
1:03:17
on you oh wow he did not that i'm thinking he wouldn't give me the talking leave
1:03:21
the address i don't think he cared that you had a wedding ring on i don't think
1:03:26
he cared although you were very respectable yeah for if your husband's listening
1:03:30
she did nothing wrong no she's a very good wife yeah i was very i would just talk.
1:03:36
She was clueless. Yeah, no. And my husband used to, actually.
1:03:40
At the jazz club, I would just talk to the random guy. He got me in the table
1:03:44
in the front row. Yeah. I never have to wait for the line. Never.
1:03:48
Yeah. If I go to the inner club or the restaurant, there's a line.
1:03:51
See, this is the reason why nobody else got a date because everybody was hitting on Diva Cat.
1:03:57
I don't think this cruise is for a date. No, there were no people I would want
1:04:02
to date on this cruise, no.
1:04:04
Except Renee, though. Oh, that bathing suit. Okay, that's a woman. I'm not dating Renee.
1:04:10
Renee, if you're out there, it's not a date. I still follow her,
1:04:13
you know that? She gave all the tips.
1:04:15
I know. I'm actually going to make the club. We're messaging each other every
1:04:18
day. Yeah, I'm actually going to make the cloud bread.
1:04:21
Oh, that looked really good. The high-protein bread, yes. I ordered that.
1:04:28
I'm telling you. Well, I think we let you know about our cruise and how to fast
1:04:35
through it and not drink soda.
1:04:36
Right? I think we covered a wide range today. We call it a sickness,
1:04:40
didn't we? The sickness?
1:04:42
Like, if you get sick, that place to go on a cruise to? Yeah,
1:04:45
there's a medical care if you get sick on a cruise.
1:04:48
Now, if you're ill before you go on a cruise, though... No, you should not.
1:04:51
You shouldn't go. So if you're having, like...
1:04:53
Health issues don't go on a cruise no even just
1:04:57
a little car no don't yeah don't can't you
1:05:00
can always change the cruise usually they allow you to move it if you're sick
1:05:03
yeah they do they give you even a hundred percent refund yeah so so i can't
1:05:08
guarantee that but they'll allow you to move it so yeah just be careful if you're
1:05:12
going on a cruise to make sure you're healthy if you're having you know it's
1:05:17
it's the best thing to do is just to make sure you're taking care of yourself.
1:05:21
Well, I think we covered it all, Diva Cat.
1:05:23
I think that was a great night. I think we had great sunsets.
1:05:27
I think we got some really nice, cute little pictures.
1:05:30
I do recommend having themes if you're going in a group because that made it extra fun. Yes.
1:05:35
And then just spend time with each other and then break away when you need to.
1:05:40
That's it. I enjoyed the sunrise and sunset. I did too, yeah. That was awesome. Yes.
1:05:45
All right. Well, this is Diva Mia. I hope you have a wonderful week,
1:05:49
and I wish you luck on your next adventure.
1:05:51
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