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- 0:00Speaker 1: From the heart of the city, where the beat meets
- 0:03Speaker 1: the rhythm of your day.
- 0:06Speaker 2: It's Shawna MLA.
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- 0:29Speaker 2: Check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one two five.
- 0:33Speaker 3: We are back from Lalla's little vacation and uh, you
- 0:38Speaker 3: went to Bermuda? Yep.
- 0:40Speaker 2: I took a cruise ship. I went to Bermuda. It
- 0:43Speaker 2: was absolutely gorgeous. I loved it. It was a beautiful island.
- 0:46Speaker 2: I would back.
- 0:49Speaker 3: So last week you were talking about not last week,
- 0:52Speaker 3: the week before you were talking about how you were
- 0:55Speaker 3: not looking forward to going on the cruise. You didn't
- 0:59Speaker 3: like boats. You're gonna get seasick. Yep. So what are
- 1:05Speaker 3: the pros and cons of your cruise?
- 1:09Speaker 2: So I'm gonna start off with this, like, was it horrible? No?
- 1:14Speaker 2: Would I go on another cruise ship. I'll give it
- 1:16Speaker 2: one more chance. I'm gonna That's all I'm gonna say.
- 1:20Speaker 2: But as for the pros, the pros would be for
- 1:22Speaker 2: a cruise would honestly just be the ease of travel,
- 1:27Speaker 2: especially if you're going to a port like that's close
- 1:29Speaker 2: to your house. So going to New Jersey, it was
- 1:32Speaker 2: like an hour and twenty minutes from my house. We
- 1:34Speaker 2: just drove there. We didn't have to take a flight,
- 1:38Speaker 2: We didn't have to go to airport. We don't have
- 1:39Speaker 2: to get up bright and early in the morning to
- 1:41Speaker 2: catch a plane, go through all that. So we just parked,
- 1:45Speaker 2: got to in there. They checked our They scan your
- 1:47Speaker 2: luggage like in the airport, but you don't need to
- 1:50Speaker 2: be there for it. You go through whatever carry on
- 1:53Speaker 2: the same kind of thing, like you go through the
- 1:54Speaker 2: carry on place and they make you put your bags through.
- 1:58Speaker 2: They take your luggage so you don't have to worry
- 2:00Speaker 2: about dragging that on the cruise ship. And they take it,
- 2:02Speaker 2: they search it themselves, and they will put it right
- 2:05Speaker 2: outside your door. So that's great, Like it's easy for
- 2:07Speaker 2: you to get your luggage. It just goes right to
- 2:09Speaker 2: your room. That's a pro. The pros you get to
- 2:12Speaker 2: see other islands without having to take flights, and you know,
- 2:17Speaker 2: going through all that, you don't have to go through customs.
- 2:19Speaker 2: You just get on the cruise ship. It will, you know,
- 2:21Speaker 2: take you to the different islands and then you get
- 2:23Speaker 2: off and you get back on. What else? The entertainment.
- 2:27Speaker 2: The entertainment was great, there was I didn't even get
- 2:29Speaker 2: to do nearly any like all of it. There's so
- 2:32Speaker 2: much stuff going on all day because our cruise ship
- 2:35Speaker 2: had fourteen floors and a lot of the floors are rooms,
- 2:39Speaker 2: but like I'd say, about six of those floors were entertainment.
- 2:42Speaker 2: So every hour had something going on on that cruise ship,
- 2:46Speaker 2: and you couldn't do it all. You couldn't get to
- 2:48Speaker 2: all the shows. So someone who likes the entertainment, that's great.
- 2:52Speaker 2: What else? What else?
- 2:52Speaker 3: What else?
- 2:53Speaker 2: The another positive, everyone is like amazingly nice, even at
- 2:59Speaker 2: the poor when you're getting on the cruise ship going
- 3:01Speaker 2: through security, you're used to airports. Airports everyone's nasty. So
- 3:06Speaker 2: I liked that that everyone at the port was really nice,
- 3:08Speaker 2: really friendly, really helpful. It wasn't stressful. And then on
- 3:13Speaker 2: the cruise ship, of course everyone was really nice. They
- 3:16Speaker 2: clean your room every single day, which is great. Some
- 3:19Speaker 2: resorts don't do that anymore, and they just they really
- 3:23Speaker 2: cater to you. Your you have your own like maid
- 3:27Speaker 2: that I don't want to call them a maid, but
- 3:28Speaker 2: they take care of everything for you. So every day
- 3:31Speaker 2: that he would come into or he'd see me out
- 3:33Speaker 2: in the hall, he said, good morning, miss Lauren. Do
- 3:35Speaker 2: you need anything today? Do you need ice for the baby?
- 3:37Speaker 2: Do you need milk for the baby? Like they were
- 3:39Speaker 2: really on top of that. So I loved that aspect,
- 3:42Speaker 2: whereas in a resort or hotel sometimes you don't you
- 3:44Speaker 2: don't know who's cleaning your room. You don't, they don't
- 3:46Speaker 2: talk to you, you know they.
- 3:47Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably a different person every day.
- 3:49Speaker 2: Yeah, so you you know, we got to know him.
- 3:52Speaker 2: And the wait staff was amazing. And cruise ships they
- 3:56Speaker 2: they take workers from all over the world, so you
- 3:59Speaker 2: have it's like a big melting pot, basically huge, and
- 4:02Speaker 2: they have their name tag and it says what country
- 4:04Speaker 2: they're from. They were all so great. We loved our
- 4:08Speaker 2: waiter and waitress. They were amazing, and they started to
- 4:11Speaker 2: know because every night we went to the main dining
- 4:13Speaker 2: room at a certain time, so we got the same
- 4:15Speaker 2: table every night, and we got the same waiter and waitress,
- 4:18Speaker 2: and they were amazing. They remembered our drink orders, they
- 4:22Speaker 2: remembered certain things about the kids like Enzol wanted mac
- 4:25Speaker 2: and cheese and chicken nuggets every night, Angelina like this.
- 4:28Speaker 2: So they were so so freakin' nice. So those are
- 4:32Speaker 2: the positives of it.
- 4:34Speaker 3: Was there any fights on the cruise?
- 4:36Speaker 2: No, not that I saw no fights, No fights nothing.
- 4:40Speaker 3: I saw TikTok a few weeks ago of a big
- 4:44Speaker 3: fight that started on the Carnival cruise.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Probably Carnival is known for a lot of a lot
- 4:53Speaker 2: of a lot of crap. They say stay away from
- 4:55Speaker 2: Carnival cruises because of the fights, because of the drama,
- 4:58Speaker 2: because of just a lot of stuff going on there.
- 5:02Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so don't take a Carnival cruise.
- 5:05Speaker 3: I won't be taking any cruise.
- 5:09Speaker 2: I mean, if you're I will say, if you're looking
- 5:11Speaker 2: to party and just party, party, party with a lot
- 5:14Speaker 2: of people, Carnival cruise is definitely that. But I would
- 5:17Speaker 2: not say to bring your kids on it. I would
- 5:19Speaker 2: not say. If you're looking for a more just like
- 5:21Speaker 2: chiller kind of cruise, I wouldn't go on Carnival. Based
- 5:25Speaker 2: on the videos I've seen and all the stories that
- 5:27Speaker 2: happen tend to be Carnival, like with the fights, with
- 5:29Speaker 2: the with the issues going on with the drama going
- 5:32Speaker 2: on with people. So that's why I would stay away
- 5:35Speaker 2: from it. Unless I was going, like for a bachelorette
- 5:37Speaker 2: party with a bunch of girls and we wanted to
- 5:39Speaker 2: just freaking get wasted and party all day long. Then
- 5:42Speaker 2: I would go on a carnival cruise.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not me. I want to relax, you know,
- 5:48Speaker 3: sit outside on the balcony, uh not fall overboard, not
- 5:53Speaker 3: and tam. That's what I want.
- 5:56Speaker 2: So then, yeah, you probably would like a cruise because
- 5:59Speaker 2: it's more laid back like on most of them. Now
- 6:02Speaker 2: on for the negatives. So the negatives for me would
- 6:06Speaker 2: be that you are stuck on a ship the whole time.
- 6:10Speaker 2: Now do you notice that you are? No, not really,
- 6:12Speaker 2: unless I was in my room and I was looking
- 6:16Speaker 2: outside the window and I'm like, oh, I can't go
- 6:18Speaker 2: outside walking. I can't go on the beach right now
- 6:20Speaker 2: because we're in the middle of the ocean. And that's
- 6:22Speaker 2: what I like to do when I go on vacation.
- 6:24Speaker 2: I'm not looking to be stuck inside. I like to
- 6:29Speaker 2: because at home, I'm working, I'm inside all the time.
- 6:32Speaker 2: On a resort, I can go to the beach, I
- 6:33Speaker 2: can walk the property, I can go see the nature
- 6:36Speaker 2: and the wildlife. So that's what I like to do.
- 6:38Speaker 2: So on the cruise, I kind of you were stuck
- 6:40Speaker 2: in a lot for events, for everything, unless you were
- 6:42Speaker 2: sitting by the pool, which was another negative. There was
- 6:47Speaker 2: not enough pool chairs for the amount of people on
- 6:49Speaker 2: a cruise ship. There's so many people on a cruise ship.
- 6:52Speaker 2: They get up bright and early to save chairs, and
- 6:54Speaker 2: a lot of times they did. They did have people
- 6:56Speaker 2: sitting there, so it's not like they were leaving them
- 6:58Speaker 2: unattended somewhere, of course, but they got up bright and
- 7:01Speaker 2: early to save their pool chairs. So I only got
- 7:05Speaker 2: a pool chair the last day I was there, so
- 7:07Speaker 2: day five or day five of my trip. Other than that,
- 7:10Speaker 2: we had to sit on the side of the pool
- 7:13Speaker 2: like there was like a little ledge there, thankfully, so
- 7:15Speaker 2: I was sitting there at my feet in the water
- 7:17Speaker 2: the whole time. So I didn't like that aspect. When
- 7:19Speaker 2: I go on vacation to a resort or hotel, there's
- 7:22Speaker 2: usually enough pool chairs out there and I can relax
- 7:26Speaker 2: and lay down, you know, So that was negative. The
- 7:30Speaker 2: negative also for me was just the amount of fricking
- 7:33Speaker 2: people on the cruise ship. It's kind of crazy, like
- 7:37Speaker 2: there's thousands. I don't know the exact number, so I
- 7:39Speaker 2: don't want to exaggerate, but I'm thinking there has had
- 7:43Speaker 2: to be at least three thousand people on the cruise ship.
- 7:45Speaker 3: Oh my god.
- 7:46Speaker 2: And you don't see them all at once because there's
- 7:48Speaker 2: fourteen floors. There's a lot, you know, going on, but
- 7:51Speaker 2: that many people, and let's say you have like a
- 7:54Speaker 2: few hundred pool chairs, you're gonna notice a difference on
- 7:57Speaker 2: the pool deck on this cruise itself. Maybe other cruises
- 8:00Speaker 2: are different.
- 8:01Speaker 3: So there's one pool.
- 8:03Speaker 2: It was one big pool spread like one part was
- 8:05Speaker 2: a kiddie pool, so it had like the kitty stuff
- 8:08Speaker 2: that it was ice cold, but kitty water park. And
- 8:11Speaker 2: then on there was like a wall separating it where
- 8:14Speaker 2: a stage was, and then on the other side was
- 8:15Speaker 2: the adult kind of pools and they were kind of
- 8:18Speaker 2: kind of cringey, like I don't know, they were dingy.
- 8:21Speaker 2: The cruise ship was old. It was old, so that's
- 8:23Speaker 2: why other cruise ships probably have nicer pools, bigger pools.
- 8:26Speaker 2: And there was only one small heated pool. And because
- 8:29Speaker 2: the water was so cold, and you know, we were
- 8:31Speaker 2: coming from New Jersey, everyone was in that heated pool,
- 8:34Speaker 2: and I have a video of it because it was
- 8:36Speaker 2: just just I get grossed out at that stuff. There
- 8:39Speaker 2: was hardly enough water in it because there were so
- 8:41Speaker 2: many people. Oh you know, you couldn't really swim. There
- 8:44Speaker 2: was tons of kids because the kids, you know, they
- 8:46Speaker 2: don't like cold water. So I didn't like that. I
- 8:48Speaker 2: didn't get in because I was getting grossed out by
- 8:50Speaker 2: the amount of people in the pool. The hot tubs
- 8:52Speaker 2: were awful. There was multiple hot tubs on the cruise ship.
- 8:55Speaker 2: I don't like hot tubs as it is, but when
- 8:57Speaker 2: I was cold, I was like, maybe I'll go on
- 8:58Speaker 2: a little bit. But that gross me out because they
- 9:00Speaker 2: were filled to the brim with people like just soaking
- 9:03Speaker 2: off their dead skin cells and nastiness.
- 9:06Speaker 3: You know, yeah, hot tubs. Scz me out.
- 9:09Speaker 2: There's public I know, it's like you're boiling the people's
- 9:13Speaker 2: nastiness off their bodies. And there's cruise ships. This is
- 9:17Speaker 2: gonna come out really really bad and people are gonna
- 9:19Speaker 2: judge me. There's like a lot of old, old people
- 9:22Speaker 2: on the cruise ships. I think cruise ships attract older
- 9:25Speaker 2: older people like old and that's fine, that's great, But
- 9:30Speaker 2: when a lot of them don't seem to have like
- 9:32Speaker 2: great hygiene or they had. This is one man, he
- 9:35Speaker 2: must have been like in his eighties. He had all
- 9:38Speaker 2: these diabetic sores on his legs, like you know, scabs.
- 9:42Speaker 3: Yeah, my grandmother had them.
- 9:43Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was in the hot tub and I'm
- 9:46Speaker 2: just thinking like, oh my god, that's just boiling his
- 9:49Speaker 2: scabs and oh I'm getting sick and nauseous thinking about
- 9:52Speaker 2: this right now. And that's not a cruise problem. That's
- 9:55Speaker 2: every hot tub problem. I'm just saying the cruise ships
- 9:58Speaker 2: tend to attract the more older generation.
- 10:01Speaker 3: But you said it was accessible, like handicap accessible. You said, really,
- 10:05Speaker 3: actually it was very handicap accessible.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Yeah, this cruise ship was that. That was definitely a
- 10:11Speaker 2: pro of the cruise ship. It's very handicap accessible. And
- 10:13Speaker 2: that's another reason I think it does. The older generation
- 10:18Speaker 2: likes it because there was a lot of people on
- 10:20Speaker 2: scooter those like Rascal wheelchairs, walkers. You know, there's ramps everywhere,
- 10:26Speaker 2: there's elevators for everything. So it was great. I think
- 10:30Speaker 2: it was good for that for anyone who's handicapped or
- 10:33Speaker 2: needs to have a walker or a wheelchair. So that
- 10:35Speaker 2: was a pro. The other negatives for me were, like
- 10:38Speaker 2: I said, the amount of people. You're only on the
- 10:40Speaker 2: island for a day and a half, so it's a
- 10:43Speaker 2: little stressful to get to leave the cruise ship. You
- 10:45Speaker 2: have to wait on this long line. They have to
- 10:48Speaker 2: scan your passport, scan your license, scan your cruise ship card,
- 10:54Speaker 2: and then you go out there and when you come back,
- 10:56Speaker 2: you have to go through like like almost like TSA
- 11:00Speaker 2: type thing, like they go through your carryon. They go
- 11:02Speaker 2: through everything. You go through the xtray and the metal
- 11:04Speaker 2: detectors scan everything, which is safe. I'm glad that they
- 11:07Speaker 2: do it, but again it's like a process when you're
- 11:10Speaker 2: on vacation. That's the last thing I want to do
- 11:12Speaker 2: to get to a beach or to explore a country
- 11:15Speaker 2: is like to go through that each time I want
- 11:17Speaker 2: to leave or come back on. And the second day
- 11:19Speaker 2: we went to the beach right next to the cruise ship.
- 11:22Speaker 2: So I went on the cruise to get something for
- 11:24Speaker 2: the baby. So I had to go through that process
- 11:25Speaker 2: like multiple times, you know, running on and get something,
- 11:28Speaker 2: come back out. So it kind of was a hassle
- 11:31Speaker 2: to me.
- 11:31Speaker 3: So the boat doesn't leave you.
- 11:33Speaker 2: No, the boat does docks there, you get off and
- 11:37Speaker 2: then you got to be back by a certain time.
- 11:39Speaker 2: So that's another negative for me is I don't like
- 11:41Speaker 2: to be timed. I if I'm exploring a country or
- 11:44Speaker 2: an island, I don't want to be timed. The first
- 11:46Speaker 2: day was great. We had an overnight stay so we
- 11:50Speaker 2: could stay out as late as we wanted in Bermuda,
- 11:52Speaker 2: that was great. But the second day you had to
- 11:54Speaker 2: be back by four, so they really wanted you back
- 11:56Speaker 2: by three thirty. And you're just constantly. All we kept
- 11:58Speaker 2: doing was looking at our watch. You're stressed because it
- 12:01Speaker 2: will leave without you and then you're screwed.
- 12:03Speaker 1: You know.
- 12:04Speaker 2: I don't like that, Like I'm not on I told
- 12:06Speaker 2: my husband. When I'm home with work and the kids
- 12:09Speaker 2: in school, I'm constantly on a time schedule, like I
- 12:12Speaker 2: gotta be here. You know how it is for me.
- 12:14Speaker 2: I'm always running like, oh shoot, what time is it.
- 12:16Speaker 2: I have to get the kids, I gotta do this.
- 12:18Speaker 2: I when I go on vacation, I don't want that crap,
- 12:21Speaker 2: Like I don't want to have to look at my clock.
- 12:23Speaker 2: I don't have to worry. I want to worry about
- 12:24Speaker 2: time or stress that stress that you get like, so
- 12:27Speaker 2: that was negative for me and the food. The food
- 12:30Speaker 2: wasn't that great. It was not horrible. I've had worse
- 12:33Speaker 2: in Dominican, like at a buffet at a resort. But
- 12:36Speaker 2: the buffet did have a lot of options, but some
- 12:39Speaker 2: of it was not good, but some, you know, some
- 12:41Speaker 2: of it was. The main dining room food was good.
- 12:44Speaker 2: We enjoyed that pretty much every night. You can eat
- 12:47Speaker 2: as much as you want off the menu, order whatever
- 12:49Speaker 2: you want. You can order five appetizers if you want.
- 12:51Speaker 2: You can order your meal three times. It's not going
- 12:53Speaker 2: to coss extra. That was great, But the negatives for
- 12:56Speaker 2: me with that was that I'm paying to go on
- 12:59Speaker 2: this own supposedly all inclusive cruise ship, and I had
- 13:03Speaker 2: to pay for a drink package for I don't drink alcohol,
- 13:05Speaker 2: but I had to get soda, like I said last time,
- 13:07Speaker 2: iced tea, the virgin drinks that wasn't included, so I
- 13:10Speaker 2: had to pay extra for that. My husband had to
- 13:12Speaker 2: pay a lot extra for alcohol. Then food is not
- 13:17Speaker 2: all included besides the buffet and the main dining room
- 13:21Speaker 2: and this pizza spot, that's all that was included. And
- 13:24Speaker 2: so the nice restaurants, the Italian restaurants, the Steakhouse, Johnny Rockets.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Those restaurants weren't and it was expensive, so we didn't
- 13:32Speaker 2: eat there. But I'm like, I've never gone to a
- 13:34Speaker 2: resort and was like, oh, well, we can only eat
- 13:37Speaker 2: at the buffet in this one restaurant and then everything
- 13:40Speaker 2: else is off limns unless we pay. Like, no, when
- 13:42Speaker 2: we go to all inclusive, everything is included.
- 13:45Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how it should be.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Yeah, So I didn't like that aspect of it. And
- 13:49Speaker 2: then I'm at the pool and they were making fresh
- 13:52Speaker 2: popcorn in a popcorn machine by the pool and I
- 13:55Speaker 2: was like, oh, well I can have I want some popcorn.
- 13:57Speaker 2: So it's a tiny little box of popcorn. I went
- 14:00Speaker 2: over there. I said, can I get popcorn? They said yeah,
- 14:02Speaker 2: They said what room are you? Which is normal. They
- 14:04Speaker 2: ask you what room you are and they write it
- 14:06Speaker 2: down or they scan your room card and they did that.
- 14:09Speaker 2: But that's normal even for things that are included. Come
- 14:11Speaker 2: to find out, popcorn is not included. You know, you
- 14:14Speaker 2: pay these thousands of dollars to go in a cruise
- 14:16Speaker 2: ship and the popcorn bag was not included. So that
- 14:18Speaker 2: costs three dollars and fifty cents. Not a huge deal,
- 14:21Speaker 2: but what the frig? I just we spent thousands of
- 14:24Speaker 2: dollars ago in this cruise and you're gonna nickel and
- 14:26Speaker 2: dine people for popcorn? You know, really, I'm not used
- 14:29Speaker 2: to that. The ice cream was free? Who was shocking,
- 14:31Speaker 2: because that's I feel like that'd be more expensive than popcorn.
- 14:34Speaker 2: But the ice cream, like soft served by the pool,
- 14:36Speaker 2: that was free. Very weird. Just as a resort girl.
- 14:40Speaker 2: This was all very weird to me. And then you
- 14:41Speaker 2: were stressing out like what am I? What's free? And
- 14:44Speaker 2: what's not free? Like I don't know, you.
- 14:45Speaker 3: Know, yeah, that would bother me.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Yeah, So I didn't like that. So that's negative for me,
- 14:51Speaker 2: and I'll give another cruise ship another try. This was
- 14:55Speaker 2: an old cruise ship. It was almost twenty years old,
- 14:58Speaker 2: so I would highly recommend if you're booking a cruise,
- 15:00Speaker 2: look for what year it was made, what year it
- 15:02Speaker 2: took its made in voyage, because a lot of things
- 15:05Speaker 2: were a little dingy and old, especially like the pool area.
- 15:07Speaker 2: So I'm gonna try for a newer cruise for my
- 15:10Speaker 2: stepmom's taking us again next year. And I just said,
- 15:14Speaker 2: let's look for a newer cruise, a bigger cruise. I mean,
- 15:17Speaker 2: bigger cruises me more people, but they seem to have
- 15:19Speaker 2: jammed a lot of people on the smaller one, so
- 15:21Speaker 2: I guess there's no way around it.
- 15:25Speaker 3: Did anything go wrong, because every time that you go
- 15:28Speaker 3: on vacation, something goes wrong.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Oh yes, of course, and that we always say that.
- 15:33Speaker 2: We always wait for it every vacation. We're like, what
- 15:35Speaker 2: day is something's gonna go wrong? We want to get
- 15:37Speaker 2: it over with because then we're good, you know, then
- 15:39Speaker 2: it's smooth sailing after that. So of course, in a
- 15:42Speaker 2: true a la la fashion, something went wrong and I
- 15:45Speaker 2: had to do with me. We went to this gorgeous beach,
- 15:48Speaker 2: Horseshoe Bay in Bermuda, and we were all hanging out
- 15:50Speaker 2: on the beach and you had to bring everything with
- 15:53Speaker 2: you because you don't have a hotel room to go
- 15:55Speaker 2: back to, like you leave the cruise. You have to
- 15:57Speaker 2: make sure you pecked everything for every situation, you know.
- 16:01Speaker 2: So we had our sneakers, we had our wallets, we
- 16:03Speaker 2: had everything. I had my wallet with me with cash,
- 16:06Speaker 2: my license, which you need or you can't get back
- 16:08Speaker 2: on the cruise ship, my room key card, all that,
- 16:10Speaker 2: and Mike didn't take his wallet. He had this under
- 16:14Speaker 2: waterproof thing that he had on his neck that only
- 16:17Speaker 2: fit his credit card, his license in his room caate,
- 16:19Speaker 2: it couldn't fit mine. So I'm like, ru, what am
- 16:21Speaker 2: I going to do? You know? So I wanted to
- 16:24Speaker 2: go swimming with everyone. Everyone was in the ocean, and
- 16:26Speaker 2: I was afraid to leave my wallet just in the stroller,
- 16:30Speaker 2: you know, in the in the beach bag. So I
- 16:32Speaker 2: was like, oh, I remember this TikTok hack. And the
- 16:35Speaker 2: TikTok hack is when you're at the beach and you
- 16:38Speaker 2: just buy some if you don't have a kid, buy diapers,
- 16:41Speaker 2: you know, or if you have a baby, take a diaper,
- 16:44Speaker 2: a clean one, put your wallet, your valuables in the
- 16:47Speaker 2: center of the diaper, wrap it up as if it
- 16:49Speaker 2: was a dirty diaper, and then put it back in
- 16:52Speaker 2: the diaper bag, or put it in the sand under
- 16:53Speaker 2: your beach blanket. So if someone tries to rob you
- 16:56Speaker 2: when you're in the ocean, they're gonna come across this
- 16:59Speaker 2: dirty diaper and not think twice about it. They're im like, well,
- 17:01Speaker 2: that's probably shit, you know, Like they're not going to
- 17:04Speaker 2: open it. Who's going to open a dirty diaper or
- 17:06Speaker 2: a rolled up diaper? Not me. I mean, now they
- 17:08Speaker 2: probably have seen these tiktoks and they do.
- 17:10Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, so this is what I did.
- 17:15Speaker 2: I'm like, smart idea, Lala. I wrapped my wallet in
- 17:18Speaker 2: cash in this diaper, clean diaper. I put it in
- 17:20Speaker 2: her diaper bag and I zipper it up and I
- 17:23Speaker 2: put it under the stroller. Well, we're there at the
- 17:26Speaker 2: beach for like five hours, and when we go to leave,
- 17:29Speaker 2: we want to go up to the bathrooms and get
- 17:30Speaker 2: showered and all that. We go up to the bathrooms
- 17:33Speaker 2: and I want to take a shower because my husband
- 17:34Speaker 2: already did. And I said, can you take care of Jelina?
- 17:37Speaker 2: Can you change her diaper? And I'm going to go
- 17:39Speaker 2: take a shower. He's like, okay, cool, I'm totally forgetting
- 17:43Speaker 2: about my little hack. I did I go take a shower?
- 17:45Speaker 2: Get ready? You know, we leave, Jelina is all clean.
- 17:48Speaker 2: We get on this bus and it was expensive as
- 17:51Speaker 2: ten dollars a person to get us thirty minutes into
- 17:54Speaker 2: the next town. And our plans from there were going
- 17:57Speaker 2: to be to walk and explore and go eat in
- 17:59Speaker 2: this town. So we get there, it's like thirty minutes away,
- 18:02Speaker 2: and just as we're about to park. I'm just like
- 18:06Speaker 2: it just clicked in my head. Check if you have
- 18:08Speaker 2: your wallet, you know, like check that the diaper's still there,
- 18:10Speaker 2: because I'm like, shit, Mike changed her diaper. My husband's
- 18:13Speaker 2: OCD as you guys know, he's very like a neat freak,
- 18:15Speaker 2: so he's on top of things. He's not these typical
- 18:17Speaker 2: lazy men who would see the dirty diaper in there
- 18:19Speaker 2: and go uh and just ignore it. No, my husband's
- 18:23Speaker 2: on top of shit, you know, which is a good
- 18:24Speaker 2: thing and a bad thing, like for this situation. So
- 18:27Speaker 2: I immediately open the diaper bag and it's not there.
- 18:30Speaker 2: The dirty diaper is not there, or the clean the
- 18:33Speaker 2: clean yeah, hack diaper is not there. And I have
- 18:37Speaker 2: the sinking feeling of my stomach and I actually started
- 18:40Speaker 2: punching myself or smacking myself in the head because I'm
- 18:43Speaker 2: so angry at myself, and I'm pulling my hair, sting.
- 18:46Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say it, but the F word multiple times,
- 18:50Speaker 2: what's wrong with me? And I'm hitting my head and
- 18:52Speaker 2: my brother is in the seat next to me and
- 18:54Speaker 2: he's like, what's going on, what's going on? And Mike
- 18:58Speaker 2: is up you know, two seats in front of me,
- 19:00Speaker 2: and he's like, what did you do? What did you do?
- 19:03Speaker 2: What did you forget? Because he knew he knew, you know,
- 19:06Speaker 2: And I said, did you throw out a diaper? And
- 19:09Speaker 2: he's like and his face went white and he goes
- 19:12Speaker 2: what was inside of it? I said, my wallet, my license,
- 19:16Speaker 2: my catch and he's like, are you freaking kidding me?
- 19:19Speaker 2: And he's shaking his head, and my brother's screaming at me.
- 19:21Speaker 2: He's like, you're an EFN idiot, You're an EFN idiot, law,
- 19:24Speaker 2: You're an affan idiot. My brother's screaming at me, and
- 19:27Speaker 2: I'm just like hitting myself in the head because I'm
- 19:28Speaker 2: just so upset.
- 19:29Speaker 3: There was any other people on the bus with you.
- 19:31Speaker 2: There was a few others, and they were just like
- 19:33Speaker 2: they didn't know what to make of the situation. The
- 19:35Speaker 2: bus drivers now he's getting panicked, like what's going on?
- 19:37Speaker 2: What's going on? So he pulls over to wherever he's
- 19:40Speaker 2: gonna let us off, and my husband says, my wife,
- 19:44Speaker 2: you know, she threw out her wallet. And the guy
- 19:45Speaker 2: was so confused, like, how do you throw out your wallet?
- 19:47Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 19:48Speaker 2: And uh so I didn't know what to do. This
- 19:50Speaker 2: is the stressful part is that you're in another country.
- 19:53Speaker 2: Number One, you can't just call over to that beach
- 19:56Speaker 2: and be like, because that's in America. I would have
- 19:57Speaker 2: called over to the little beach hut there and said, hey,
- 20:00Speaker 2: I threw my wallet out, But you don't have service
- 20:02Speaker 2: in another country unless you buy it, and which we didn't.
- 20:05Speaker 2: You don't have service, there's hardly a Wi Fi anywhere.
- 20:08Speaker 2: You don't know how to get back there. You don't
- 20:10Speaker 2: have your own car. So my husband said to all
- 20:13Speaker 2: of us, just get off the bus, sit here at
- 20:15Speaker 2: this picnic table. I'll take the bus back and I'll
- 20:18Speaker 2: go searching for the wallet. And we knew it was
- 20:21Speaker 2: a thirty minute trips, so we're like, we're gonna be
- 20:22Speaker 2: here for an hour or longer if he's looking for it,
- 20:25Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, So that's what happened. He drove, he
- 20:28Speaker 2: got back on the bus, the bus driver took him
- 20:29Speaker 2: back to the beach. Thirty minutes. He searched through the garbage,
- 20:33Speaker 2: and then I was like, I didn't know how to
- 20:35Speaker 2: get in touch with him. Luckily, I went to a
- 20:37Speaker 2: restaurant across the street to get Wi Fi and in
- 20:40Speaker 2: case there was WiFi at the beach, I couldn't remember
- 20:42Speaker 2: if there was, but there was one at the restaurant
- 20:45Speaker 2: up top, and my husband was smart enough to go
- 20:47Speaker 2: to the restaurant and he called me from there and said,
- 20:50Speaker 2: I found your wallet, and I breathe a sigh. Oh
- 20:53Speaker 2: my god, I felt so happy. I was praying to
- 20:55Speaker 2: Saint Anthony the whole time, you know that the Catholic
- 20:57Speaker 2: Saint Anthony, Say Anthony, Oh yeah, I was praying that
- 21:00Speaker 2: my sister's praying, and uh, he got the wallet. He
- 21:03Speaker 2: came back to us, but it kind of it ruined.
- 21:05Speaker 2: It ruined our you know, our moods. It was very stressful,
- 21:09Speaker 2: especially in another country. So we got my wallet. It
- 21:12Speaker 2: was fine, but it was funny. He said. People were
- 21:14Speaker 2: staring at him that he's this man is sorting through
- 21:18Speaker 2: a dirty trash can on the beach and then pulling
- 21:21Speaker 2: out a dirty diaper or what they assume is a
- 21:23Speaker 2: dirty diaper and opening it and putting it in his pocket.
- 21:26Speaker 2: So he's like, people probably thought I was taking baby shit,
- 21:29Speaker 2: you know, Like I was like, oh my god. So yeah,
- 21:33Speaker 2: that was what happened. We made the best of it.
- 21:36Speaker 2: It just we had a It took us a little
- 21:38Speaker 2: we ate. We felt better. But they're not gonna let
- 21:40Speaker 2: me live that down. My husband's like, stay off, TikTok,
- 21:43Speaker 2: don't do any more stupid hacks. I'm like, well, it
- 21:45Speaker 2: could have been a good one if I told somebody.
- 21:47Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, if you have told someone, So that's
- 21:50Speaker 2: the thing. If you're gonna do it, tell somebody.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Well, since you were on vacation, I used the clear
- 21:57Speaker 3: light red light therapy. Oh my god. I did not
- 22:01Speaker 3: realize how bright the light was. I forgot.
- 22:04Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that's why she said that some people
- 22:06Speaker 2: like to use those.
- 22:08Speaker 3: Year I goggles. Yes, so I need to get me
- 22:12Speaker 3: a pair. I can't believe that it made me feel
- 22:15Speaker 3: so relaxed.
- 22:17Speaker 2: That's that's how I felt too from it. It just
- 22:19Speaker 2: was like a calming effect, you know, just a very
- 22:23Speaker 2: chill like I don't know, zen out, you know, zend
- 22:25Speaker 2: out to it. Yeah.
- 22:27Speaker 3: Even the cat, even Leo, like he came up and
- 22:29Speaker 3: laid next to me, and I don't know if it
- 22:31Speaker 3: bothered his eyes. But yeah, I mean like I turned
- 22:34Speaker 3: it on and my mom's like, the whole neighborhood is
- 22:36Speaker 3: going to see it.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty bright.
- 22:38Speaker 3: It's it's so bright you could you know, the way
- 22:41Speaker 3: it was positioned, you could see it like through the windows.
- 22:44Speaker 2: Yeah, so you gotta be careful someone might be driving
- 22:47Speaker 2: by sail. Oh there's a red light special in that house.
- 22:49Speaker 3: Well that's what my mom said, and she's like, you
- 22:52Speaker 3: better watch what you're doing.
- 22:54Speaker 2: Yeah that back in the day, that used to be
- 22:56Speaker 2: a sign. You know.
- 22:59Speaker 3: Did you check out the heart low light?
- 23:00Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, I love the mini, the portable one.
- 23:04Speaker 2: It is like a magnet on it and it fits
- 23:06Speaker 2: right on my mag safe of the back of my iPhone.
- 23:09Speaker 2: So I was able on my trip to film some
- 23:11Speaker 2: things with with the light. It has a little mirror
- 23:14Speaker 2: on it so you could see what you're filming too,
- 23:16Speaker 2: or like if you're holding the camera facing you, you
- 23:18Speaker 2: could see the view that you know, the phone is getting.
- 23:21Speaker 2: Which that was awesome. That's like really smart. But yeah,
- 23:25Speaker 2: it's great. And then we have the one in the
- 23:26Speaker 2: studio that we were playing around with, and I love
- 23:30Speaker 2: that it has the barn doors on it that kind
- 23:33Speaker 2: of it directs the light where you need it to
- 23:35Speaker 2: be and the different filters, the color lenses. I had
- 23:38Speaker 2: blue on Showana earlier. It was really cool.
- 23:40Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. It started out green though.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Yeah it was. It was a green one. Then I
- 23:44Speaker 2: did a blue one. I did a red one. But
- 23:46Speaker 2: when I when you play with the lighting, so you
- 23:48Speaker 2: can change the warmth of the lighting to a cool
- 23:51Speaker 2: to a warm setting. So it's gonna something's gonna look
- 23:54Speaker 2: like more led light, and then it's gonna go to
- 23:56Speaker 2: that warm old fashioned light, which you know, depending on
- 23:59Speaker 2: what you need for your photos or your video. And
- 24:01Speaker 2: then the brightness levels and it gets really bright. I
- 24:05Speaker 2: almost need to show up with it.
- 24:07Speaker 3: It did.
- 24:08Speaker 2: Yeah, So and then they have the filters so if
- 24:10Speaker 2: you want to give a new, like a different ambiance
- 24:12Speaker 2: to your photos or video. I like that too. So
- 24:15Speaker 2: that was really neat, and it's portable, charge it and
- 24:18Speaker 2: you can put it on a tripod, you could put
- 24:19Speaker 2: it on a handheld. We have it on our ring
- 24:22Speaker 2: light because the ring lights are you know, they're kind
- 24:24Speaker 2: of old school. Now I'm feeling like it's out with
- 24:26Speaker 2: the Ring Light and more towards this. So this is
- 24:29Speaker 2: the Hoble Light, the Hoble Light Mini we had, and
- 24:32Speaker 2: then the Harlow, the mini portable one I love, and.
- 24:35Speaker 3: We're going to use it to film some future videos.
- 24:38Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I use it for my vacation than the
- 24:40Speaker 2: portable one that I take on my phone and the
- 24:43Speaker 2: other the Hoble Light Mini. We're using for product reviews
- 24:46Speaker 2: for filming our podcast, and it's been a game changer
- 24:49Speaker 2: in how our videos and photos look. So I'm excited
- 24:52Speaker 2: to play with it more because I am new. I'm
- 24:55Speaker 2: new to this, so I am learning its features and
- 24:58Speaker 2: learning the right positioning. So it's really it's a really
- 25:01Speaker 2: great product for creators. You don't have to be a professional,
- 25:04Speaker 2: like a creator or up to a professional. A lot
- 25:06Speaker 2: of professionals I've read use this and they love it. Yeah,
- 25:10Speaker 2: So how's your diet going with all your health issues?
- 25:14Speaker 3: It's going okay. I guess I'm mostly gluten free and
- 25:20Speaker 3: dairy free. I han't had milk in like a month
- 25:22Speaker 3: and just absolutely like killing me. I just want like
- 25:26Speaker 3: my hot chocolate, you know.
- 25:28Speaker 2: I know, But it's it's okay.
- 25:30Speaker 3: I went to the doctors yesterday for a follow up.
- 25:34Speaker 3: All the tests come back fine. All the scans. I'm
- 25:38Speaker 3: going for a scan actually very soon, in a little while.
- 25:43Speaker 3: I have to leave, so we'd have to cut the
- 25:45Speaker 3: show a little short this week. But yeah, I mean
- 25:48Speaker 3: everything's come back. Fine, I'm watching what I'm eating. I'm
- 25:52Speaker 3: doing better, but I'm still swollen and they do not
- 25:58Speaker 3: know why. And also my sea reactive protein, I believe
- 26:04Speaker 3: it is, is elevated, which means there's inflammation in my body.
- 26:09Speaker 3: So they don't know. They really have no idea what's
- 26:12Speaker 3: going on. Maybe this cat skin will tell something.
- 26:16Speaker 2: I'm hoping. I'm hoping.
- 26:17Speaker 3: I have to tell you that we got these meals
- 26:20Speaker 3: in the male. They're called Eat, Clean and Go, and
- 26:24Speaker 3: they are so good. They're healthy, they're fresh, the meatpoles.
- 26:29Speaker 3: I had the spaghetti meatballs and the meatballs were really
- 26:33Speaker 3: like they were like homemade meatballs.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:36Speaker 3: And then I also had a chicken meal. It was
- 26:40Speaker 3: chicken and pasta, and the chicken was so freaking good.
- 26:46Speaker 2: Was it tender?
- 26:47Speaker 3: It was tender. It was like, uh, like a chicken cutlet. Basically,
- 26:51Speaker 3: it was really freaking good.
- 26:53Speaker 2: I could my problem a lot because finding these meals
- 26:57Speaker 2: that have meat that's not dried out, and that's great that,
- 27:01Speaker 2: you know. I didn't try the chicken, but I tried
- 27:04Speaker 2: the Moho pork last night and it was so tender too.
- 27:08Speaker 2: So's that's that's really hard to do when meals that
- 27:11Speaker 2: are being reheated, you know.
- 27:13Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're fresh. That's why I like it. And
- 27:16Speaker 3: they deliver right to your door.
- 27:18Speaker 2: Yeah, they say that they shop, they cook, and they
- 27:20Speaker 2: delivered it right to you. They're like home cooked meals,
- 27:23Speaker 2: but they do it clean. It's a lot of natural foods.
- 27:26Speaker 2: They're not putting junk in there. If you read the ingredients,
- 27:28Speaker 2: there's nothing, nothing, no chemicals in it. It's just exactly
- 27:33Speaker 2: like if I made a meal at home. That's what
- 27:34Speaker 2: it would be, you know, like the seasonings and then
- 27:36Speaker 2: the food. No preservatives, which is great. And last night,
- 27:40Speaker 2: actually I came home late from a course concert. I
- 27:42Speaker 2: was so tired. It was almost eight o'clock at night
- 27:45Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm starving. I didn't feel like cooking dinner.
- 27:48Speaker 2: Everyone else had her to read eight because I got
- 27:49Speaker 2: their late. So I opened my fridge and thankfully had
- 27:52Speaker 2: my eat clean go meal in there, and it was
- 27:54Speaker 2: the twelve hour marinated pork pulled pork with the platinols.
- 27:58Speaker 2: It's like a banana fried banana, which you know, I love,
- 28:01Speaker 2: and it was so amazing. I didn't use the microwave
- 28:05Speaker 2: because I'm trying to get away from that. So I
- 28:07Speaker 2: put mine in the on the stove and it came
- 28:09Speaker 2: out so good. It tasted as if like I just
- 28:12Speaker 2: made that, you know. So yeah, it's great and it's
- 28:16Speaker 2: good for me because I'm doing like the Keto diet.
- 28:18Speaker 2: I mean, I've gotten off that, but I'm dieting. So
- 28:20Speaker 2: this is a great portion control and if I wanted to,
- 28:24Speaker 2: if I'm doing a certain diet like the Keto, the Paleo, Vegan, whatever,
- 28:28Speaker 2: you can go on their website and customize your meal
- 28:31Speaker 2: for the week of all Keto meals, all you know,
- 28:35Speaker 2: vegan meals. All this meals will high protein, all gluten
- 28:38Speaker 2: free meals. And that's great. Because I started this Keto diet,
- 28:43Speaker 2: the hardest part for me has been prepping and finding
- 28:46Speaker 2: the time to prep, finding the will to prep like
- 28:50Speaker 2: I don't want to do it, and knowing what's the
- 28:53Speaker 2: right foods to use because I'm just learning all this
- 28:56Speaker 2: with Keto. So this is a great way to just
- 28:59Speaker 2: make your life easier or go online and say, okay,
- 29:01Speaker 2: I'm doing this diet and then it'll show you all
- 29:03Speaker 2: the meals that will fit your lifestyle or your diet.
- 29:06Speaker 2: And and it's clean eating, which is even better.
- 29:09Speaker 3: Yeah. So their website is eat Clean to Go dot com.
- 29:15Speaker 3: If you want to order it from them, head to
- 29:16Speaker 3: our website Shawana and Lala dot com and click on
- 29:20Speaker 3: the eat Clean to Go so good And they really
- 29:24Speaker 3: are like homemade meals. So the video I did for
- 29:28Speaker 3: Musele's the hair Solution for because of my thyroid, I've
- 29:34Speaker 3: been like losing it so much hair. I have like
- 29:36Speaker 3: a huge bald spot h But the video is finally out.
- 29:40Speaker 3: I'm so excited so that everyone could see my hair transformation.
- 29:43Speaker 3: Now it really works, And the best part about it
- 29:47Speaker 3: was the the solution. You put on put it on
- 29:51Speaker 3: your hair like one to two times a day, morning
- 29:54Speaker 3: and night. I always did it at night though, and
- 29:57Speaker 3: it put me to sleep.
- 29:59Speaker 2: It smells it's like rosemary. I don't it has like
- 30:02Speaker 2: a very uh. I don't know what's being smell.
- 30:04Speaker 3: Yeah good, yeah, yeah, but I don't know what's in it,
- 30:06Speaker 3: but it smelled like rosemary to me. It just put
- 30:10Speaker 3: me right to sleep.
- 30:12Speaker 2: I loved it.
- 30:13Speaker 3: You don't see results overnight. It took me about what
- 30:17Speaker 3: would you say, six months to almost a year.
- 30:21Speaker 2: I'd say less than that. For you, like we started
- 30:23Speaker 2: seeing some hair growth within three months and then yeah,
- 30:26Speaker 2: like to get the full blown like yeah, maybe closer
- 30:29Speaker 2: to six months.
- 30:30Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so I really like it. You could check
- 30:33Speaker 3: out on my video. It's on our website and social
- 30:36Speaker 3: media pages, and we love Musli. I've used it for
- 30:41Speaker 3: my acne, when I had my thyroid issues. You used
- 30:45Speaker 3: it for a few things.
- 30:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 30:47Speaker 2: I use the I cream. I love the I cream.
- 30:49Speaker 2: I use the body, the KP body for my arms
- 30:53Speaker 2: because I have KP, like the little tiny bumps. Sometimes
- 30:55Speaker 2: I get them in the winter and that has been
- 30:58Speaker 2: grief with that. I have the anti Asian cream from
- 31:02Speaker 2: my face that I use at night, and I've noticed
- 31:05Speaker 2: a huge difference in my skin. And it's I'm getting old.
- 31:08Speaker 2: There'll be forty this year, so I need all the
- 31:10Speaker 2: help I can get.
- 31:11Speaker 3: I know. I was just thinking about that, like we're
- 31:13Speaker 3: getting really old.
- 31:14Speaker 2: I know, I hate it.
- 31:16Speaker 3: I'm gonna be thirty six next week, Oh my lord.
- 31:19Speaker 2: Yep. And then it just keeps going downhill from here.
- 31:22Speaker 3: Well it started going downhill at like twenty five. Yeah,
- 31:26Speaker 3: and that's our show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
- 31:30Speaker 3: You're listening to Shauna and Lala. Check us out at
- 31:33Speaker 3: Shawnalala dot com on social media at Shauna and La La.
- 31:39Speaker 3: You could follow me on Instagram at the Real Shauna May.
- 31:43Speaker 2: And check me out at Bella Underscore Lalla one two five.
- 31:46Speaker 3: We will see you next week.