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  Hello and welcome everyone to the Diz pod.
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  I have been so excited about this for like a week.
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  I just. I almost felt like I was on this
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  trip with Lawrence in spirit because we talked way more than
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  I thought we would and I appreciate that.
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  I tried to leave him alone to respect his vacationing time but
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  I loved when he would text me. So loving it.
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  Can't wait to hear all the details.
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  We purposely didn't even talk about this so that it could all
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  be fresh and new from me as well.
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  And we have a surprise guest, which makes me excited because
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  he's he's pretty popular in our family.
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  We were a big fan. We're a big fan, you know, so
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  got a special guest coming on to today.
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  We do this live because we do it for all of you.
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  And if you want to watch and listen other than this live
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  broadcast on the Dizpod channel that sits all on its own, you
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  app. You can also do that too, which
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  is kind of neat. And you can also go to those
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  other platforms, Amazon, Apple, iHeartRadio and I, I, I always
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  try to remember all of these. There's so many of them.
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  I'm missing 1. Spotify.
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  Spotify, thank you Spotify I should just write them down so
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  they're in front of me every week and I should probably just
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  do that or just know them by now, but welcome everyone once
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  again. We do this live because we do it
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  for you. We see the chat rolling there,
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  even though we may not be as interactive with you as I am in
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  the parks. It's because we're recording a
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  live podcast. But we will call on you now and
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  then. And Lawrence will be so kind to
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  throw up some great quotes and things like that from all of you
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  as we go along. So welcome.
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  Tammy's always my hero, but I will say she she was a real hero
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  this afternoon. So the new iPhone 17 Pro Max's
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  came out a little while ago and a quick story, We couldn't get a
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  hold of Jill and it was a spur of the moment thing like OK, I'm
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  buying these on the spot and we needed to know what colour she
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  wanted and we guessed silver and then she can do whatever she
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  wants with a phone case and all that stuff, right?
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  Of course not, you know, you know, right, whatever colour I
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  would pick, she would want. The other thing.
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  Oddly enough, the girls never owned, I don't think any kind of
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  colour before. She wanted orange like Dad so
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  had to wait for the whole process for her phone to come in
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  because it was already ordered. I had to send that one out and
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  repurchase an Orange 1. So Tammy waits all day long here
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  at home for the delivery of this because they want you to sign
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  for it. So she waits and waits.
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  She leaves the house for 7 minutes to go pick Jacob up from
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  school and come home. Wouldn't you know, she missed
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  the delivery guy? So I, yeah, so I called them
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  thinking, oh, they'll they'll redeliver tomorrow or maybe we
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  can get them to drop it off at a pickup spot and we can go pick
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  it up at PS pickup spot. Well, I had no fight, no fight
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  at all in that one because they told me at UPS that they have a
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  contract with Costco where we bought the phones and Costco has
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  an agreement. It's a one time shot and it gets
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  sent back. What an awful policy.
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  Hey, no, we get it. Yes.
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  So Tammy was fuming. You know what she said?
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  She circled the neighborhoods in the communities hunting down
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  this UPS guy and finally she's like, I give up.
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  I got to go to Publix and get a couple things.
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  She's walk. If I get this right, she's
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  walking out of Publix. Who does she see in the
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  distance? A U PS: truck.
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  She hunts that guy down and runs up to him with a paper and tells
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  him that she's been looking for him all over the place.
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  And he's like, yes, I have that package.
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  Tell you what, I'll go down about 5:00 and I'll and I'll
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  I'll deliver it to you. So my hero, good effort paid
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  off. And I happened to get the ring
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  alert when he showed up and he was handing her the phone.
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  I said you are our hero, Sir. Wow, so.
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  That's crazy. So yeah, I thought that was a
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  story worth opening with. The last thing I'll say is, you
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  know, I feel like the last time we started this podcast, I still
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  had some sunlight. No more sunlight.
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  Yeah, well, Catherine went to pick up Finley from after
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  school. It was already dark by the time
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  they got home. Like, this is weird.
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  And of course, in the beginning, you know, when you first switch
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  the time, that's when it's the, you know, the darkest and just
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  always feels weird that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  So, you know, I'm sure questions will pop up for me as we go
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  along, but I feel like I'm going to take a little bit of a
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  backseat on this one and listen to the boys talk a lot.
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  As you, yeah, if you have questions, pop them in.
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  Same thing with chat. Chat if you have questions about
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  the cruise and you want tips and tricks, just put AQ in front of
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  your comment and we will respond to them.
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  So this cruise was for Catherine's 40th.
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  We I asked her what she wanted to do and it was either this or
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  Disneyland and she was leaning towards the cruise.
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  I reached out to Ivonne from Myers and the Mouse and book
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  this cruise. I don't even remember when it
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  was a couple months ago. Normally I don't book very early
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  but book my trips early. But this one I did and you?
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  Know well well. Well, cruises, I was going to
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  say cruises. I've learned in research that
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  the earlier you do it, it's like a flight, the cheaper the price.
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  It doesn't go cheaper if you get closer.
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  Exactly, so you know yours, you booked a year plus out.
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  We were not that far out, but you know, having that count,
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  that countdown is like crazy because you just want to get on
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  this, especially being the first time that we were on the cruise.
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  So I reached out to Catherine's sister to see if she wanted to
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  go. She ended up not going, but I
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  reached out to Nick and Christina to see if they wanted
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  to go. And of course, Nick was down.
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  As long as he could get the time off, he was going to be there.
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  And so he he went with us. And so I'm going to bring Nick
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  in because he is our guest for this evening, this evening show.
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  Nick. Hey, hey.
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  What's up, Nick? This Bros.
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  This Bros. That's nice.
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  This Bros is in full effect today.
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  Now we're going to be Cruz Bros. That's right.
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  That's. Right.
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  Oh yeah. Oh, yeah.
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  You coming on the next one? Let's go.
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  All right. Fantasy, dream, wish.
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  What's the other 10? Destiny.
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  Hit them all. We'll make some up.
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  We'll make some up. You see, I'm on my, I'm on my
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  Steamboat. I got to have my, my Steamboat,
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  Steamboat Willie. You know what I mean?
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  Yeah. We we could have possibly been
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  matchy matchy on that one. I like to matchy matchy people.
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  So Nick went with us. Nick and Christina went.
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  They have not been on a cruise. Would you been on the Staten
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  Island Ferry? Maybe, Yeah.
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  Maybe yeah about it. So what did what did you think
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  when when I talked about going on on the cruise, especially
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  Disney Cruise? The Walt Disney Cruise, yes, but
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  it's not it. I mean, there's no rides on the
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  cruise, or so we thought. We didn't know how much other
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  entertainment that was on the cruise.
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  And the first reaction to cruises is, oh, you know,
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  where's it going to go? What do we do?
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  How long is it, you know, and everything else that people
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  think about cruises, you know, people get sick, it's crowded,
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  it's expensive, all of those things.
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  And Christina's actually, she's feeling under the weather today.
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  So sad, sad, but maybe she'll pop an elbow in or something
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  like that later. But she did a ton of research
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  and, and we found out that it's actually, it's really fun.
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  And we looked at the, the, the room tours.
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  You can show yours too. But we looked at the room tours,
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  we looked at what type of food, we looked at the excursions that
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  we can do. And we actually did more, she
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  actually did more research than than some travel agents.
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  And because we just didn't know. And so, you know, she, you know,
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  kudos good to her for doing all of that.
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  Of course, every time we go to the parks, we have to dress up a
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  different day and in our outfits and she makes ears.
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  And so it's all of that. But so we we definitely made
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  sure to to kind of do a lot of research and, and get into the
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  crew spirit. But but yeah, we already know we
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  was. We was going to have a good time
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  no matter what. And you know, that's what,
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  what's cool about Nick and Christina is they jump into
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  whatever the theme is they, they go hardcore.
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  So you'll see a little bit of that during, during the show.
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  But you know, we had to get passports.
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  We, we didn't have passports. Well, I guess technically we
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  didn't have to get passports, but I don't even have a real ID,
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  so I needed to get my passport. So we get our passports and now
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  it's like, OK, well, these things are good for a long time.
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  We better use them. So now it's like now that you
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  have the passport because you're getting on the cruise, now you
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  have no excuse. You can go to, to Mexico, you
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  can go to, you know, the UK, you can go, you know, wherever you
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  can afford to go. So, you know, that kind of
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  opened up the, the idea of let's go and see some stuff.
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  So we get there. I this is this was my
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  recommendation is to get there the night before, right.
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  Did you do that with your cruise, Corey?
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  No, because you were driving. Here we just drove and parked.
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  Yeah, that's right. We're about an hour away from
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  from the port. Little over an hour.
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  Right was it? Did you leave at a Port
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  Canaveral? Yes, yes, we did.
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  Which is, which is, which is, which is great because we get to
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  save on airfare when it comes to cruises.
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  So we're definitely at an advantage for that, you know, so
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  close. Yeah.
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  So we flew or we sailed out of Port Everglades down in Fort
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  Lauderdale. So we both booked a hotel for
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  the night before we got some dinner and then headed out that
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  next morning to the port. And I remember feeling, I don't
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  know if Nick felt this way, but nervous excitement, right?
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  Because it's something we've never done, but it's also
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  something you've never done. So you don't know what to
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  expect, right? But Finley and I had watched a
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  lot of of cruise videos and a lot of YouTube videos about the
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  dream walkthroughs and all that kind of stuff.
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  So kind of felt like I was, I was in a decent position, but
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  still just we pulled up, we got an Uber from the hotel and we
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  pull up and you just see the size of this thing.
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  It is just massive. I mean, you couldn't even see it
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  from so you know how you have the TTC for the reason that Walt
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  didn't want the exposure of the parking lot right by the right
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  by the by the park, right. Well, you don't really have that
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  with the cruise ship. You know, you're just pulling up
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  and there's your garage and that's where you get off and
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  then the ship is like right there.
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  But still, there was something magical about seeing that big
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  Disney ship right there waiting, waiting to take us.
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  And I I enjoy just being just that, that process.
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  We we were coming up to it and, and Lawrence goes, Lawrence
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  goes, we're not going to be on land for the next 5 days.
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  Yeah, no, yeah. Like no American soil.
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  Like we were walking up the I guess they call it the gangway.
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  I don't know if they call it that for the for the ship.
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  OK, so as I get there, I'm telling Finley I'm like, we're
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  not going to be on American land for five days because we were
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  going to Cozumel, Mexico. And then we had another sailing
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  day and we went to Castaway Key and then we sailed back.
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  So we went out on American soil for five days.
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  I've never had that experience because I've never left the
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  country outside of when I was three.
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  I went to Montreal and I think that was for like 2 days for a
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  wedding. So it was, it was really cool.
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  We get on the ship and actually, you know, one of the things that
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  they do is the the welcome, right?
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  I'll show. I'll show you that video.
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  So, you know, it's kind of cool because they announce every
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  single family that comes on the ship and you just feel, you know
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  how they say welcome home when you go to a resort, it's the
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  same thing. They do the same thing there.
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  They say welcome, welcome home. Nick, what did you think walking
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  on the ship for the first time and seeing the atrium?
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  Yeah, I was about to say that it it's that's grand.
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  That's on some like, I don't know, Great Gatsby stuff, right.
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  And like that huge atrium, the, the, the staircase where, where
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  the, the pumpkin tree was that huge chandelier.
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  I I didn't know it was going to be like that.
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  And it's, it's such a grand opening.
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  And you're like, wow, this is cool, you know, and yeah, as as
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  much as luxurious as it felt, it was like, all right, this is
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  cozy. This isn't, you know, Yeah.
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  It felt cozy as well as extravagant and elegant at the
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  same time. It's funny that you say it was
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  cozy because I said those exact words to Lawrence not too long
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  ago, right? It's like, although this is a
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  grand ship and there's thousands of people on it all the time, I
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  felt like there was a level of coziness, like this is our home
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  for five days. We're going to be on.
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  It's going to it. There's so much to do here.
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  We don't have to technically even leave it.
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  And it's there's a cozy, homey feeling about it.
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  I don't know what it is. Yeah, that's true.
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  I mean, you think about it between, between the guests and
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  the crew, there's over 1400 crew members on that that ship.
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  And so you're talking about 6000 people just about.
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  And yet it still felt very cozy, you know, and, and you started
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  to get used to it, right? Like by day 2, you knew I get
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  off this elevator and I know I'm right there all that's Sarah's
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  door. OK, I'm I know I'm at the right
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  spot and I'm, I'm going down the down the down the hall and, and
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  our door is next. You know, it's you just start to
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  get used to it. And it did feel like like home.
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  What about? Let me, let me add to that, let
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  me add to a little bit of that for a second.
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  So you were wowed at the atrium when you went by, but did it
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  take a day or two before? You're just walking by that
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  thing multiple times a day and it's no big deal anymore, right?
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  Because that's the way I feel like when I, when I'm in Magic
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  Kingdom and I just, I'm cutting through the the hub to go from
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  Adventureland to Tomorrowland. Sometimes I don't even look at
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  the castle. Yeah, it's.
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  Counting, you know. And you get.
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  Used to it, right? You got used to it at some
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  point. It started and and remember
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  towards the end we were like, you know, the atrium actually
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  looks small right now. Yes.
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  And I think it just became like the living room, you know what I
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  mean, of the. Ships.
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  Yeah, Yeah, exactly. So go ahead, Lawrence.
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  You know, and, and certain ships, like we've been watching
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  a lot of the, the other videos and some ships that atrium is
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  actually a theater. Now they do have some
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  performances, some, some activities there.
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  So for example, they do the, the tree lighting, right?
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  And they have this little story around Nightmare before
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  Christmas. And they also did the diaper
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  dash. So they had all these kids.
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  How many 14 I think it was and they had three heats of these
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  little babies that were under a year old and couldn't walk and
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  they just had this diaper dash. It was so funny to watch What
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  else did they do there? Well, they did the the final
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  show was there the last night the see you real soon they.
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  Had the band. They had the band.
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  Yeah. Yeah, there's some some
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  Christmas jazz playing. I mean Disney Jazz.
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  Yeah, they, they were, they were.
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  So they had they had some good entertainment there, but that
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  wasn't really the I'll say that wasn't really the hub of the, of
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  the ship. You know, it's deck 11 where the
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  pool is, where the funnel vision is, where all the, you know, big
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  activities are. And so that was impressive when
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  we walked up there for the sail away party to see that space
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  because it's massive. I mean, it they could really fit
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  the majority of us up there. I mean, it was it was it was the
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  hub like the Finley was there just about every day in the pool
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  in the slide. She did the aqueduct.
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  That's the one thing Nick and I both did not do the aqueduct.
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  No, you did. You did.
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  That's right, Yeah. I did not get through the
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  aqueduct. Yeah, it's on the top of the
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  ship and on the top of the cruise ship and it's, it's a
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  water ride. It's a tube slide and it
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  actually hangs over the side of the the side of the cruise ship
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  as if you're just hovering over the ocean.
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  It goes decently fast. It's not a short ride.
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  You know, it's, it takes you around the ship and you're
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  waving at people. They're waving at your back.
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  You hover over the the two pools in the in the top of the deck
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  and it's a it's a cool little. It's a cool little.
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  Oh, there we go. Oh, that's a for movie night.
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  Yeah. Do do you have a blueprint shot
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  of the ship with all the decks and things?
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  No, I meant to grab that, but I didn't.
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  I didn't get a nice one that I wanted.
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  Oh. Yeah, yeah.
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  But. Tony Otower wants to know how
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  active the atrium was during during sea days.
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  Honestly, unless there's something going on there like
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  the band playing or the diaper dash, the atrium really isn't
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  that busy. But to me, because it was just
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  to get from place to place, you know, But there were you did
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  have the the character, you had a lot of character meet and
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  greets there. You had the princesses that met
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  there. You had let's see if I can pull
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  up some of the the characters now again, Nick can talk about
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  like they set out with a plan for the characters Talk, talk
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  about. Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, Amen. Yeah.
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  Every. So every time we go, of course,
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  the the shout out goes to to Christina.
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  By the way, for anybody that doesn't know, Lawrence and I are
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  actually brothers. So I got to give a shout out to
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  and say hi to Purple Pleasure. Hi, Mom and.
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  And I'm the brother from another mother.
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  I like to play myself. Yeah, yeah.
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  And you actually had had our other brother on Alex.
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  Yeah, his first. Yeah.
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  Disney. That's right.
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  So you got almost all your brothers on.
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  That's right. And mom got all of her sons on.
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  So. But, but no, whenever we go out,
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  you know, kudos to Christina. And she's like, look, it's
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  Halloween. So of course we got to have like
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  3 or 4 Halloween outfits. And I don't know if you have,
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  you have all these shots. Yeah.
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  So we, we went as Lock and Shock from Nightmare Before Christmas.
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  And of course there's two of us. So we you know, but Beryl came
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  along with us and you'll see those pictures in a second.
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  And we of course it's pirate night, right?
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  So we didn't realize, we didn't realize how big pirate themed is
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  and we should have known this, but it's huge.
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  There's a whole pirate night that happens and everybody
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  dresses up amazingly. So of course we had to do our
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  thing and dress up as pirates. Actually, I got what's pirate
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  Mickey? It's pirate Mickey that we
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  brought along. So he's ready for the high seas
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  with his dreads and everything. Of course, this is a pirate hat.
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  So we was we was decked out. You know what I mean?
• 22:16
  There we go. Yeah.
• 22:18
  Oh yeah. Picture with a hook, you know
• 22:21
  what I mean? There's Christine and I think
• 22:23
  yeah, we had to do it Big I I also didn't realize how big
• 22:29
  ducks the whole duck thing is. I mean, you know, we're we're
• 22:32
  first time cruises everybody. So, so we didn't realize that
• 22:35
  that you see all these ducks back here that we had to collect
• 22:39
  these and hide these. And it was a lot of fun doing
• 22:41
  that. And so a lot of people got some,
• 22:45
  some tiny little ducks from us, but Nah, the the characters and
• 22:52
  we knew, oh, here's the other thing that we planned is that
• 22:55
  Christina said, you know, let's usually when we go to the parks,
• 22:59
  we have some characters sign something and I usually have
• 23:02
  them sign a hat. And this is my core hat that I
• 23:07
  had Daisy and Donald and Chippendale and Minnie, and
• 23:13
  somehow Asha got in there to sign and Goofy and Pluto.
• 23:17
  So I needed Mickey to sign this hat and he did.
• 23:20
  But the other thing we wanted to do was have photos that we were
• 23:25
  going to take. Oops, I got stuffed, Jonathan.
• 23:28
  And we wanted to have a frame signed by all the characters on
• 23:32
  the cruise ship. And so I don't know if you can
• 23:36
  read all of this, but we've got Chip and Dale, Goofy, just about
• 23:39
  everybody on the ship. We didn't do the the royal
• 23:42
  gathering to have them all signed, but Ariel, Cindy, we got
• 23:49
  Mini, of course, the crew, Mulan, we have them all sign
• 23:52
  this. And so of course, we now the
• 23:54
  last thing to do is to print out the photos from from our trip
• 23:58
  and put them in here and this will live in our memories
• 24:02
  forever. So that was the plan.
• 24:04
  We plan accomplished. We did that.
• 24:07
  So but yeah, the the characters are great.
• 24:12
  All of their, you know, it's what you expect.
• 24:14
  They're not, you know, they they're first cut characters.
• 24:16
  They do the signatures the same. They do all the mannerism.
• 24:20
  It's fun to meet them. And we had a great time doing
• 24:22
  that. Chip, Chip and Dale.
• 24:25
  Chip and Dale were their normal Chip and Dale sounds.
• 24:28
  They were. They were cutting up with each
• 24:30
  other. Was it Dale that was signing?
• 24:34
  So Finley had her autograph book and so Dale is signing it and
• 24:39
  Chip goes over to him, rushing him like this and clapping it,
• 24:42
  right? Yeah, he was.
• 24:43
  Taking a while to sign and chip's like, come on, this
• 24:46
  guy's, you know, yeah. So it was, it was a lot of fun
• 24:50
  and they were like, you could, you know, find them randomly.
• 24:55
  They, they were in the app. So there isn't a navigator
• 24:58
  cruise app that you would use. But they, it did feel like
• 25:03
  sometimes there was some random characters.
• 25:05
  So for example, we went to the royal gathering so that Finley
• 25:08
  could meet the princesses. But before that, we stumble upon
• 25:16
  Mulan just hanging out in the hallway just above right there
• 25:21
  on Deck 4, just taking pictures. And so we got her to sign and
• 25:27
  take a picture and we asked her if she was going to be in the
• 25:30
  Royal gathering. And she was like, no, I have
• 25:32
  some stuff to do, so I'm not going to be there.
• 25:34
  But but Ariel was there, Cinderella was there, Tiana and
• 25:43
  Rapunzel, who of course, Rapunzel is Finley's favorite
• 25:48
  Princess. So we were able to get a picture
• 25:51
  with Finley and her Rapunzel dress with, with Rapunzel.
• 25:55
  So she was, she was really happy about that.
• 25:59
  And those happened on a couple different days.
• 26:02
  So it's not like you had to rush to do something.
• 26:06
  And I think that that's that was something that really stuck out
• 26:09
  to me about the cruise is that there is a you will not get
• 26:15
  everything done. You just won't.
• 26:19
  Nick, what was something that you wanted to do on the cruise
• 26:21
  that you didn't get to do? Wow.
• 26:27
  OK, There were, OK, We didn't realize the theater action that
• 26:32
  happens like the theater plays that happened on the ship and
• 26:37
  apparently there were three of them.
• 26:39
  And I guess, and I guess this is now a poll question of anybody
• 26:44
  that has seen any of the plays on there, but apparently they
• 26:47
  all have different plays. So Beauty and the Beast was one
• 26:50
  of them that they did in the theater.
• 26:53
  Golden Mickey's was one and believe so we saw Beauty and the
• 26:59
  Beast. Amazing.
• 27:01
  OK, it's amazing. The the the singing, the the
• 27:04
  theatrics, the acting, the banter, all of that is what you
• 27:10
  expect for Broadway quality theater.
• 27:14
  And I didn't realize Disney Cruise was going to have
• 27:16
  Broadway quality theater. Believe, if anybody has seen
• 27:21
  that, that is that will make you believe in mad.
• 27:24
  It was amazing. That was an amazing, but we
• 27:27
  didn't get to see Golden Mickey's and everybody's like,
• 27:31
  you got to see Golden Mickey's. It's the best.
• 27:33
  And I was like, what, What are you talking about?
• 27:36
  Do we miss Golden Mickey's? So that that was one thing.
• 27:40
  But yeah, so I guess chat, if you've seen any of those plays,
• 27:44
  theater within cruise, which ones do you like the best?
• 27:48
  But we we were blown away by that.
• 27:50
  Yeah, and Golden Mickey. See, that was partly my fault
• 27:54
  too, because I saw it. I knew it was in the theater and
• 27:57
  I thought, excuse me, I thought it was just.
• 28:01
  I thought it was a montage of, you know, Mickey shorts.
• 28:05
  I don't know, you know, I didn't realize it was going to be a
• 28:08
  stage performance. If I did, I probably would have
• 28:11
  went because when we saw Beauty and the Beast, luckily we were
• 28:13
  also center stage there. And man, what a performance.
• 28:19
  And then Believe, like Nick said, is incredible.
• 28:22
  Believe is actually a original story, an original story for the
• 28:29
  Disney Cruise Line and it will be on the fantasy.
• 28:33
  So you will get to see Believe and so believe I won't give much
• 28:39
  away, but Believe is a story about a dad that stops believing
• 28:43
  in the magic and all your favorite characters come to help
• 28:48
  him start to believe. Unbelievable show.
• 28:52
  So, so good. Yeah, so, so good.
• 28:55
  And the, the, the thing about the shows, what Nick is right
• 29:00
  about them being Broadway quality.
• 29:02
  All of those performers have performed on Broadway.
• 29:07
  They were either on Broadway, they were on West End or they
• 29:09
  were on the first national tour. So these folks know how to do
• 29:13
  it. The other crazy thing to me is
• 29:15
  that it's the same cast in all three shows, which means they
• 29:20
  have to learn three shows. And on Monday night they perform
• 29:25
  in Golden Mickey's. Tuesday night they're performing
• 29:27
  Beauty and the Beast. And then Wednesday night they
• 29:29
  perform or Thursday night they're performing Believe
• 29:34
  That's crazy to me because you're talking about, you know,
• 29:40
  3 scripts, 3 choreography. Like it's they were absolutely
• 29:46
  incredible and didn't miss a beat.
• 29:48
  Absolutely didn't miss a beat. I will say, I thought we were
• 29:52
  going to have time to like watch a movie, right?
• 29:54
  Like Tron Aries was playing there.
• 29:57
  We could have seen Tron there. Never had time.
• 30:01
  You caught about 20 minutes of Pirates in the Caribbean.
• 30:04
  Of course they played that. And of course I watched it in my
• 30:06
  pirate outfit. And but yeah, the, the, the they
• 30:09
  had movie nights up there. You just go up there, you get
• 30:12
  ice cream, you get popcorn and you just, you catch a movie.
• 30:15
  And then those were late nights. They had the food open that was
• 30:19
  on inclusive food throughout the day.
• 30:22
  We could pivot to the food if you want, but the food was
• 30:26
  amazing. I'll just say this, OK, Paulo,
• 30:33
  anybody that knows anything about Paulo knows that that's
• 30:36
  one of the best places to eat, I guess, in general.
• 30:39
  But authentic Italian restaurant on the ship.
• 30:44
  They served an amazing brunch, the eggs Benedict, eggs Benedict
• 30:52
  and, and the, and the dinner from Paulo too.
• 30:56
  But you know, like, imagine anybody that hasn't been on on
• 31:00
  the dream or any cruise, Disney cruise.
• 31:02
  Imagine, close your eyes and imagine that you're on the seas
• 31:06
  and the, the, the sunset it is setting and you have you going
• 31:10
  to, to, to this authentic Italian restaurant.
• 31:15
  And actually our waiter was Italian.
• 31:18
  He was actually from Sardinia. So with his accent, trying to
• 31:22
  understand him. Saying things in.
• 31:24
  Italian, whatever he says, it sounds amazing that we want to
• 31:26
  eat and it would and it's it was amazing food.
• 31:31
  So anybody that knows something about Paulo, now we've been
• 31:33
  spoiled. I can't eat eggs Benedict the
• 31:35
  same way anymore. But but whether it be Paulo,
• 31:40
  whether it whether it be, what were the other?
• 31:44
  So the other the other one was Remy.
• 31:46
  So Paulo and Remy are the 2. They're actually on the the 12th
• 31:50
  or 13th deck and they are they are the 2 restaurants that you
• 31:56
  have to pay for, but the food is phenomenal.
• 32:00
  You don't even now Apollo is at each of the each of the cruise
• 32:05
  ships so as well. So you'll have Apollo on the
• 32:08
  fantasy also. OK.
• 32:11
  But you don't even have to go to those to get good food.
• 32:17
  The the restaurants that you you do rotational dining.
• 32:21
  Did you have rotational dining on on your cruise, Corey?
• 32:26
  No, no. Of course, you know, for those
• 32:29
  who don't know, we did, we did Royal.
• 32:31
  We, we are waiting to do our first Disney Cruise.
• 32:33
  But with Royal, No, we had, we had the main dining that you
• 32:37
  could go to or you could go to the buffet or you could pay for
• 32:42
  things like Chops Grill or Giovanni's is the is the Italian
• 32:48
  restaurant. We paid up for Chops Grill and
• 32:51
  it was, it was the best steak we've ever had.
• 32:55
  Amazing service, great, great night.
• 32:58
  And there's a blog over there living in Diz if you want to
• 33:00
  check out Chops Grill review. That was really good.
• 33:03
  So because it was Catherine's birthday, we did a couple
• 33:07
  special things. So we did do Paulo the night of
• 33:11
  her birthday. She have I have a Co host for
• 33:14
  time. So we did we did a couple
• 33:20
  things. She she got a nice, nice robe
• 33:23
  from Disney cruise. It's so soft.
• 33:28
  Is that one that was supposed to stay in the room or she was
• 33:31
  allowed to leave with it? No, no, no.
• 33:34
  It was it. She was allowed to bring it
• 33:35
  home. It it was good all.
• 33:37
  Right, you know our reputation. Don't worry, don't be down.
• 33:39
  On the list. Right.
• 33:40
  Don't worry, she didn't pirate it.
• 33:42
  Let's see what I did now. But we by the way.
• 33:49
  Mark, you mentioned rotational dining.
• 33:51
  I think Disney Cruise Lines, if I'm not mistaken, is the only
• 33:53
  cruise line that has rotational dining.
• 33:56
  Oh, OK, well then let me explain that a little bit because I had
• 34:00
  no clue about rotational dining. So rotational dining your first
• 34:07
  night might be, what's the name of it, Nick?
• 34:10
  Royal Garden. No enchanted garden.
• 34:13
  Royal Palace, Royal palace and Animator's palette.
• 34:18
  Animator's Palette So you had those 3 restaurants.
• 34:21
  So on your four nights you are slotted to seat at one of those
• 34:26
  restaurants and we were table 87 and you were table 87 at each of
• 34:31
  the, the restaurants and your servers moved with you.
• 34:38
  So if you had melroy at, you know, Royal Royal Palace, you
• 34:44
  then also had Melroy at Animators Palate.
• 34:49
  Excuse me. And they it wasn't just Melroy
• 34:52
  like there was there was Melroy, there was.
• 34:57
  Philippa. Philippa and Randy, you know.
• 35:02
  Also known as Jose. Also known as Jose one night.
• 35:05
  No, Juan was it. Juan Oh was.
• 35:08
  It I can't remember. It was a Spanish J name.
• 35:12
  But you know, you know how Corey, when they lose their name
• 35:15
  tag, they have to have a name tag.
• 35:17
  So yeah, he became, he became some other name.
• 35:20
  So. So this is in the Enchanted
• 35:25
  Garden. We were table 87.
• 35:27
  So you always knew, you know, when you walked into the
• 35:29
  restaurant, you would say table it.
• 35:31
  They actually ask you what table you would say 87.
• 35:34
  Yeah. We didn't know the first night.
• 35:36
  So that was Melroyd. Melroyd has been there 13 years
• 35:41
  or 11 years. Eleven years on the ship.
• 35:47
  Now. Here's something that I, I, I
• 35:49
  wanted to bring up because I think it's very important for
• 35:51
  people to understand just how special these cast members are.
• 35:55
  You know it, you're in the parks twice a week.
• 35:58
  You know how special cast members are.
• 36:00
  These folks, I didn't realize this until we were on the cruise
• 36:04
  already. Their contracts are between 4
• 36:07
  1/2 and six months long, and then they'll go home for a month
• 36:14
  to six to seven weeks. 6-7, they'll go, they'll go home.
• 36:21
  They'll go home for, for that period of time.
• 36:24
  Yeah. And they're on the ship and in
• 36:29
  the dream, their bunk beds. So they're bunking with another
• 36:34
  cast member during their six months there.
• 36:37
  They also don't really have a full day off.
• 36:41
  It's rare for them to get a full day off.
• 36:44
  Like they might work breakfast and maybe they're off for lunch
• 36:47
  and then they're working for dinner.
• 36:48
  Especially the dinner folks and then the state room attendants.
• 36:52
  They have to get you dinner every night and they have to get
• 36:55
  your room ready every night. Well, actually twice a day.
• 36:58
  Yeah. So they they never can have a
• 37:01
  full day off. Yeah.
• 37:03
  And then you would think, well, deparcation is easy, right?
• 37:07
  No, because it's also embarcation.
• 37:10
  So just because we're leaving, that's their worst day because
• 37:14
  they've got to get everybody off, get the rooms changed over
• 37:18
  and get ready to greet the new folks coming in it.
• 37:21
  What these folks do, it is absolutely amazing, absolutely
• 37:25
  amazing. So our our state room attendant,
• 37:30
  Jocelyn, he had been there what, 17 years?
• 37:33
  You can tell that these guys that have been there, you know,
• 37:37
  upwards of a decade, you can tell that they like their job
• 37:41
  and you can tell that they're good at their job.
• 37:43
  I mean, it was like the second or that that first day, like we
• 37:48
  met him. He came and he talked to us.
• 37:51
  And then later that night he was like, hey, Miss Catherine, is
• 37:54
  there anything I can get for you?
• 37:54
  And I'm like, how do you know my name?
• 37:58
  Like he just remembered me. He knew me.
• 38:00
  And the whole time I felt like, like he really was attending to
• 38:06
  our family, even though he had, you know, he should have asked
• 38:10
  however many staterooms that he was attending to.
• 38:12
  But he, you know, the fact that he made us feel that way or made
• 38:16
  me feel that way, I'm pretty sure that he did the same with
• 38:20
  all of his stateroom. Tenants and you know.
• 38:27
  How did, how do you, how was it for you guys?
• 38:30
  Nick 'cause. They had a different.
• 38:32
  State room attendant. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:34
  So we, we were actually, we were on both on deck, deck 8 and we
• 38:38
  were just on opposite sides, port side and starboard side
• 38:42
  cruise lingo. But no, you guys were.
• 38:44
  Starboard. We were starboard, so yeah, so.
• 38:48
  So yeah, shout out to our guy Wida.
• 38:50
  He's from Indonesia, from Bali, WIRA, shout out to him.
• 38:54
  And normally when you go to a hotel and you're just like, I
• 38:56
  don't need room service or whatever, and you put the the
• 38:58
  sign out, but they have to clean, they're gonna enter and
• 39:01
  they have to clean your room twice a day.
• 39:04
  So after the first time, we're like, ah, we're pretty clean.
• 39:06
  We don't need anything. He came in anyway.
• 39:08
  OK, great. And then we went out, went to
• 39:10
  dinner and came back like that. And he and we, we have a new
• 39:13
  towel, you know, animal that was that.
• 39:15
  And we're like, he came again and there's nothing we're going
• 39:18
  to do besides do this towel art, which was amazing.
• 39:22
  But but yeah, shout out to them. They they, they, they do their
• 39:25
  thing. I think widow was on for how
• 39:28
  long, Christina? Like 15 years or something like
• 39:30
  that. Oh yeah, I think what is that?
• 39:32
  It's like a sea turtle. Sea.
• 39:35
  Turtle on. All those chocolates were good
• 39:37
  did. You.
• 39:38
  I never had one. Yeah.
• 39:40
  Chocolate. OK, you ate them off.
• 39:42
  But you know, so the beauty of it with like with you guys, you
• 39:45
  guys wouldn't have been able to tell.
• 39:47
  Hey, Christina. Hey, Christina.
• 39:50
  You guys wouldn't have been able to tell, but for us with Finley,
• 39:55
  they would have to bring her bed down every evening, so they had
• 39:58
  to come service our room every evening and then every day in
• 40:04
  the morning they would put her bed back up.
• 40:08
  Apparently it's not, it's they're not allowed to or we're
• 40:10
  not allowed to keep it down. And he told us he's like, you
• 40:14
  know, if you guys want to take a nap, just let me know.
• 40:16
  I'll be down the hall somewhere and I'll come down and I'll make
• 40:19
  the bed for you. We never did need that service,
• 40:23
  but it was available if we needed it.
• 40:26
  And since you would see Greg acts in the chat, what happens
• 40:29
  if they're sick? And I was, we were thinking the
• 40:31
  same thing, like cruise ships being as, as they are, right.
• 40:36
  By the way, a lot of people did get sick after this one,
• 40:39
  Christina's included. I didn't, but but you guys
• 40:44
  didn't. But yeah.
• 40:45
  So we're like, what happens if any of the crew get sick?
• 40:49
  The, the, the state room attendance, like, you know, it's
• 40:52
  you got to. So I don't know, I don't know
• 40:54
  what kind of immune systems they have, but I get to be, you know,
• 40:57
  going on the ship as long as they have they're, you know,
• 41:00
  doped up on vitamin C. But but yeah, that and, and
• 41:04
  you're right. That's why gratuities are a must
• 41:07
  because they're they, you know, we the, the last thing that we
• 41:11
  were thinking about is how much do they make?
• 41:13
  Right? And you know, for most people
• 41:15
  it's a personal question, but we were like, you guys are in
• 41:17
  Bahamian dollars. That's.
• 41:21
  Right. You guys are on the cruise
• 41:22
  months out of the year. You come back for a little bit,
• 41:25
  you go right back, you don't get any days off.
• 41:27
  Like it's insane. And a lot of them come from all
• 41:29
  different parts of the world. And so it's cool to talk to
• 41:32
  learn about their lives and everything and, and, and we're
• 41:35
  brought them to the ship and stuff.
• 41:36
  But but yeah, their gratuities are must.
• 41:39
  And, you know, they, they actually include it and then
• 41:42
  everybody always tips them pretty generously.
• 41:44
  Yeah. And you can prepay the tips if
• 41:48
  you want to and then leave additional if you want to
• 41:51
  afterwards. So that's what we.
• 41:52
  Did we prepaid as well as we gave Lita extra?
• 41:57
  Because I figured, I mean, he's scrubbing our toilets, he
• 41:59
  deserves extra, right? So we ended up giving him more,
• 42:03
  you know, But yeah. Oh, so Steve and Tony, they have
• 42:07
  a sick Bay. All right.
• 42:08
  Well, I guess they got a quarantine.
• 42:10
  So they do that, that's on, that's on deck 1.
• 42:13
  So we we never, well actually the only time we went there is
• 42:16
  when we were getting on and off at the excursion.
• 42:21
  Wait, had Steve? And Tony?
• 42:22
  Been on a cruise on a Disney cruise before?
• 42:25
  Have they been on a cruise yet? Corey, Steve and Tony.
• 42:30
  Hi, I'm not sure. They'll let us know.
• 42:34
  Yeah. Murray, good to see you, Eric.
• 42:39
  Eric, he wants to know if you guys had a veranda room.
• 42:41
  Oh, good question. I.
• 42:44
  Told Lawrence. I was like, for my birthday,
• 42:47
  right? I was like, let's go big.
• 42:51
  I want to. I want to wake up in the morning
• 42:54
  and smell the fresh sea air, which I did do every.
• 43:00
  Morning. We missed that.
• 43:01
  I did watch the sunrise a couple of times.
• 43:05
  Yeah, veranda. Yeah, yeah.
• 43:08
  Get a veranda. They, they.
• 43:09
  So there's veranda rooms, which it means that you have a balcony
• 43:13
  that you can stand out on. They have what is it port
• 43:16
  something? It's a porthole, the port
• 43:18
  window, but you can't step out on.
• 43:21
  And then they have inside rooms where there's none of that.
• 43:24
  It's cheaper, but you're inside. I thought that they would have
• 43:27
  been bigger, at least if, you know, we were talking about this
• 43:29
  a little while ago. But yeah, if this if the inside
• 43:31
  rooms that you don't have a view, they would be bigger and
• 43:35
  obviously cheaper, but is what it is.
• 43:39
  Yeah. But yeah.
• 43:40
  And then there's also the the the tower suites, right.
• 43:44
  And there's a concierge deck on I think on the 12th and the 13th
• 43:49
  deck, and you want to talk about cruising and luxury.
• 43:54
  That's our next cruise. Yeah.
• 43:57
  Yeah, OK. I, I priced that out.
• 44:00
  We're not. We're no just.
• 44:03
  Need 2030 thousand. 2030 thousand.
• 44:05
  Yeah, I do. I do have a friend that's going
• 44:08
  to stay at the Tower Suite, the Destiny on the maiden voyage.
• 44:12
  So I will be sure to get some video from him to show it on on
• 44:17
  the show because that'll that'll be good.
• 44:19
  Yeah, I do need to have them on the show.
• 44:22
  Someone asked about the room. Let me show you our room.
• 44:30
  So that's what it looks like. Look at that plane door, Nick
• 44:33
  and Christina. That's what it looked like
• 44:37
  before we before we started. But what's cool about the the
• 44:41
  Disney ships is you have split bathrooms.
• 44:44
  So you have a bathroom and you see the 2 doors.
• 44:47
  You have one bathroom that has the sink in the toilet, the
• 44:50
  other one has a sink and a shower or tub.
• 44:53
  They. Decorated for my birthday.
• 44:56
  Decorated for her birthday. So she got a towel, she got
• 45:01
  pillowcases, sash and that, that banner.
• 45:06
  This room is only 300 square feet, but it's big, especially
• 45:11
  for the three of us. I think even for the four of us,
• 45:13
  it would it would work if Jay came.
• 45:16
  So there you see the room without the bed down.
• 45:19
  So you have a separate living area.
• 45:22
  You've got a table. The curtain pulls across to
• 45:25
  separate. And then we did have a veranda.
• 45:28
  So excited that. I didn't even take my bag off.
• 45:31
  Yeah, I'm like, let's go out here, right?
• 45:34
  Now, yeah. And then I couldn't open the.
• 45:38
  Door so so that I mean, I've seen a lot of different rooms.
• 45:46
  I did enjoy having that one with the with the veranda out there
• 45:50
  to to look and it's not like we went out there and had coffee.
• 45:53
  We should have. 22 sinks, though is was a was a pleasant
• 45:58
  surprise. We were like, OK, we're not
• 46:01
  sharing. We we just knew it was going to
• 46:03
  be cramped and tiny. We were like, OK, you got just
• 46:05
  saying I got my sink right. So that was good.
• 46:08
  And also 2 closets. There was a safe, the bed
• 46:13
  actually has room that you could put your luggage under.
• 46:16
  So that was storage that was great.
• 46:19
  The desk, yellow TV there, which, you know, I got my Mickey
• 46:22
  shorts on, you know. Oh yeah, Oh yeah.
• 46:27
  I I texted Lawrence at 11 particular night and I'm like
• 46:30
  you watching Mickey Shorts and he's like, as matter of fact, we
• 46:32
  are. It was.
• 46:36
  I just knew Nick was watching them on the other across the
• 46:39
  hall. There, yes, I was watching oh,
• 46:42
  Christina, I'm not going to see that, but yeah, I I took a
• 46:45
  picture and I was going to send it to you guys, but it was late.
• 46:48
  But I was like, you know, I'm getting my Mickey shorts.
• 46:50
  On did you get the? Did you get the Internet package
• 46:53
  Nick? No, I didn't.
• 46:55
  OK, 'cause I was going to say cause So the beauty about the
• 46:58
  the did you? I don't know if you mentioned
• 47:01
  this is that sorry, Android users, but if you're an iPhone
• 47:07
  user, imessages work, yes, now you can communicate with each
• 47:12
  other. If you know your what, what is
• 47:15
  what is like your your your calf.
• 47:18
  Yeah, that's an yeah. There's.
• 47:20
  An IT in the app, you have to get the cruise LINE app and
• 47:23
  there's a chat function in the app where if you have somebody's
• 47:26
  ID you can chat with them on the cruise line network.
• 47:30
  Right, but if you don't, you could chat with imet or you can
• 47:34
  send each other imessages as iPhone users.
• 47:38
  So that was great and we did that the whole time.
• 47:43
  Now with the chat feature, that is how they contact you when
• 47:48
  your kid is at the Ocean Ears Club or or Ocean Ears Lab, which
• 47:54
  is the the kids club basically. And that's how they contact you
• 47:57
  to let you know if your kid wants to be picked up or what
• 48:00
  have you. Yeah, so they use the app.
• 48:05
  I was going to say that's one thing that using the app is
• 48:09
  fine. And how much was the the
• 48:11
  Internet? It was like $28.00 or something
• 48:12
  like that per. Day it was 20.
• 48:13
  Was it 28 or 26? One of the two.
• 48:18
  And I got it for one day. I got it for my birthday because
• 48:21
  it felt weird not talking to my mom on my birthday.
• 48:25
  Yeah, so I got it for my birthday and I actually
• 48:28
  Facetimed with my Co workers that day and the connection was
• 48:32
  flawless. So it was it was really good.
• 48:35
  And then I faced so that was FaceTime on iPhone.
• 48:41
  But then I spoke to my mom on WhatsApp.
• 48:43
  There you go. Yeah.
• 48:44
  So WhatsApp is also available. But Christina, tell him, tell
• 48:49
  him the issue that with WhatsApp.
• 48:52
  Oh, so I did not download it yet.
• 48:57
  So it pretty much, yeah. With the iPhone you if you do
• 49:01
  attempt to download WhatsApp, it it doesn't work like at all.
• 49:05
  You have to do it prior to, you know, boarding on the nothing
• 49:09
  works. Yeah, it was a little bit.
• 49:11
  Have it already downloaded like installed and you have to have
• 49:15
  already had like created your account or whatever it is
• 49:19
  because once you have no Internet, that's it.
• 49:22
  Yeah, that's. It but oh what I was going to
• 49:23
  say about imessages is that imessages work but pictures
• 49:28
  don't. Right, right.
• 49:31
  And funny enough, you can't obviously get YouTube, but I
• 49:36
  could get into the studio app. So I was editing Corey's live
• 49:40
  streams while I'm just laying there in bed.
• 49:43
  I'm just editing out copyrights and stuff like that.
• 49:47
  So you're welcome. I was working on my vacation.
• 49:49
  He wasn't sitting on the rod and having coffee, he was editing
• 49:52
  your your streams. You know LID never sleeps.
• 49:57
  That's right, there are no days off in LA also.
• 49:59
  Never rests on a veranda. Tony, I wish that the Internet
• 50:06
  was free. If if that's the one of the
• 50:07
  thing that I'll be like, you know, they should just include
• 50:09
  that. They should just include the
• 50:11
  Internet package for everyone. But I think it was like $188.00
• 50:14
  for the the the the whole trip. For one device for.
• 50:18
  One device. For one device.
• 50:20
  One person, one. Device.
• 50:21
  That's crazy. Yeah, most.
• 50:22
  People just it was too much. The the Internet package through
• 50:26
  their own phone provider. Yeah, either that or disconnect.
• 50:31
  It was. It was.
• 50:32
  It was nice to be able to disconnect it.
• 50:34
  Really was just did not have to worry about that.
• 50:37
  I was going to mention that. The only time I was a little
• 50:40
  worried, like when we got off in Cozumel, like if they're not
• 50:44
  right next to me, like, you know, it's Cozumel, Mexico.
• 50:49
  The only thing that I did miss was that so Christina told me
• 50:54
  about the Facebook group for our specific cruise time.
• 51:00
  So you join this Facebook group and it's everyone that's going
• 51:03
  on your cruise during your time frame.
• 51:07
  And they, they, you know, plan different things.
• 51:11
  They plan the, the Pixie dusting.
• 51:14
  You can tell them, you know, what you're celebrating and
• 51:16
  stuff like that. And what I missed was that
• 51:21
  sometimes people were chatting back and forth on the Facebook
• 51:24
  group, but because I didn't have Internet, I didn't have a way to
• 51:27
  communicate back. And sometimes I would get
• 51:28
  messages saying, Hey, someone commented on your picture, but I
• 51:32
  could never see what they said because I couldn't actually go
• 51:34
  on the app and view those messages.
• 51:37
  I just got notifications. Yeah.
• 51:40
  Speaking of, Speaking of the of the Facebook group, Christina
• 51:44
  actually did something really cool.
• 51:45
  You want to tell him about it? The shirt.
• 51:48
  Oh no, it wasn't just me. It was, what's her name?
• 51:51
  You. Did it?
• 51:51
  It was your idea, I'm going to say.
• 51:52
  That no. It wasn't my idea.
• 51:58
  OK, I think, Lawrence, I sent you the video.
• 52:01
  Do you have the video? It just kind of like.
• 52:03
  I didn't get it loaded in. OK, so.
• 52:07
  So what happened was Christina, we planned the outfit every
• 52:11
  night and Christina goes on this day and you're going to wear
• 52:13
  this shirt. And so put the picture.
• 52:17
  And so I was like, all right, cool, I wear this shirt.
• 52:20
  It's a cool shirt. It's, it's pumpkin Mickey's and
• 52:22
  things like that. And as we're walking through the
• 52:26
  atrium and, and to that lower level, I see a whole bunch of
• 52:29
  other guys wearing the same shirt.
• 52:31
  And I'm like, oh, OK. And, and they come to me and I'm
• 52:34
  like, oh, nice shirt, nice shirt.
• 52:35
  And I look around and there's like 20 of the people wearing
• 52:38
  the same shirt. And I was like, I get it.
• 52:40
  I see what happened here. And, and apparently it's a
• 52:44
  thing. So when Christina was on the.
• 52:46
  Is that the video? So, so when Christina was on the
• 52:49
  Facebook group, she was like, yeah, let's let's do a prank.
• 52:52
  And everybody pranks their spouse or whatever.
• 52:54
  And shout out to Sarah. She's the one who initially came
• 52:56
  out with it. It's a TikTok prank pretty much
• 52:59
  where all the dads wear the same shirts, so the wives have to,
• 53:03
  you know, buy the shirts and get them all together.
• 53:05
  Let's see. Oh yeah, she's showing it.
• 53:07
  I. Don't know you can't see that
• 53:10
  but. That's just the.
• 53:12
  The post There you go, that's the shirt which I have.
• 53:17
  I have a very nice version of that shirt upstairs so.
• 53:22
  Let me tell you what, this guy did so as a joke, 'cause you
• 53:26
  guys know he has that wonderful Turkey shirt that I just
• 53:30
  absolutely love. She knows it's a great shirt.
• 53:34
  I got it for him for his birthday and I was like, hey, I
• 53:37
  brought, I bought you this shirt.
• 53:39
  I thought you could wear it on the cruise.
• 53:41
  He forgot to pack it. And I could have sworn I saw it
• 53:46
  packed with his stuff and I should have grabbed it.
• 53:48
  And I, I should have grabbed it to put it in my backpack to make
• 53:51
  sure that I had it because I wasn't sure if we were going to
• 53:53
  get our luggage in time. And I didn't.
• 53:55
  And I was so frustrated when he didn't pack it because I'm like,
• 54:00
  we, you know, I'm obviously not. Christina and I, we didn't plan
• 54:04
  the thing, but we were participating.
• 54:06
  And the whole thing was that they were both going to wear a
• 54:08
  shirt. So I was like, Oh my gosh, you
• 54:10
  know, we were supposed to be participating in this.
• 54:13
  And now Lawrence is going to be left out.
• 54:15
  So we get to the atrium and and what?
• 54:21
  When did you realize that it was a thing?
• 54:25
  I think as soon as we got off the elevator there were like 2
• 54:28
  guys walking right and you were like oh look, nice shirt.
• 54:31
  I was like, oh. So like when we.
• 54:34
  Saw like the bigger number of people.
• 54:36
  I said to him, because I asked him before we left the room.
• 54:39
  I was like, hey, where's your shirt?
• 54:40
  You should put it on. And he's like, oh, I forgot it.
• 54:43
  And I was like, oh, OK. And, and we get to the bottom to
• 54:49
  the atrium, and when we start seeing a lot of the the men
• 54:52
  wearing the shirts, I was like, Oh, yeah, by the way, you were
• 54:54
  supposed to be a part of that prank.
• 54:55
  Yeah. The shirt that you were wearing
• 54:58
  was similar enough you could have snuck in the photo, yeah.
• 55:00
  Right, but in in exchange though, I was wearing my Dizpod
• 55:05
  hoodie. So I was I was representing the
• 55:09
  Dizpod was that was that. Was that the day that that we
• 55:12
  almost that we almost got knocked off of the shit?
• 55:17
  Oh my goodness. Yeah, dude.
• 55:20
  Let's talk about that. So, so the cruise ship is
• 55:28
  amazing. It's built well.
• 55:30
  However, when there's rough winds, stuff happens.
• 55:34
  And we were, we were going through one of the doors and
• 55:38
  there's an exterior door before you get onto the deck.
• 55:41
  And then there's an interior door where you go into the to 1
• 55:44
  into the inside. And so in between there they
• 55:47
  would create a wind tunnel. And as we were coming out, one
• 55:50
  of those doors was kind of stuck.
• 55:52
  So I'm pushing it open and the inside door, it's glass, it's a
• 55:56
  glass door. And the frame broke and the
• 56:00
  glass was falling out of it. So imagine this large pane of
• 56:03
  glass with this huge gust of wind totally destroying the
• 56:08
  door. And it was, it was headed
• 56:11
  towards Cat and Finley. And it was like, uh oh, what's
• 56:14
  happening here? And so I don't know what
• 56:18
  happened now. I don't know how it broke, you
• 56:19
  know. Well, it broke by the wind.
• 56:21
  But. But that was one of the things
• 56:23
  when we were like, oh, my God. Like, you know, one day.
• 56:26
  Day two of his cruise. Yeah.
• 56:28
  Day one. Yeah, yeah.
• 56:30
  Day one, yeah. I could click glass from falling
• 56:33
  out, hurting somebody. It was heavy.
• 56:35
  And then Lawrence and I moved it away, you know, because it just
• 56:39
  would have stayed there. And you know, I mean, so yes, we
• 56:42
  saved, we saved everybody on the ship for that emergency.
• 56:48
  Everybody. But so it's funny because I
• 56:51
  thought, I thought when I heard the noise, because Nick and I
• 56:54
  were already on the deck, Finley and and Catherine were behind
• 56:57
  us. When I heard the noise, I
• 56:58
  thought it was like a sign that fell.
• 57:00
  So like big deals. I turned around and I didn't see
• 57:03
  it and I'm like, what's that on the floor?
• 57:04
  And I thought it was the sine frame.
• 57:06
  Then I realized it's like the the rubber gasket from around
• 57:10
  the door, the glass of the door. So yeah.
• 57:21
  So those so we attended that went to go look at it.
• 57:27
  And they're taking pictures of it.
• 57:28
  It was it was that's the craziest thing that that's
• 57:33
  happened in a in a while. But you know, luckily it wasn't
• 57:38
  any worse. But All in all, phenomenal trip
• 57:44
  would certainly do it again. We went to Cozumel, Mexico.
• 57:47
  We saw we went to a planetarium, we did a we did a tour.
• 57:52
  These guys went Hang Gliding with a dolphin or something.
• 57:55
  I don't know. What did you guys do?
• 57:57
  We did some scuba diving. Snorkel.
• 57:59
  We did some snorkeling. I wanted to hit up a jet ski,
• 58:02
  but are so the excursions you either have to travel out if
• 58:06
  let's say you're in Mexico and Cosmo, you got to travel out to
• 58:08
  get some good excursions and some good prices.
• 58:11
  Castaway Key, it's a nice little island, but the excursions there
• 58:16
  that you would do the jet skiing and stuff like that, it's
• 58:18
  actually pretty pricey. So, so just be be aware of that.
• 58:23
  But yeah, we just went out on our own and did our thing.
• 58:26
  Yeah, So that's a castaway tea. We, we, I mean, look at that
• 58:30
  water like you don't get water like that here in the States.
• 58:33
  Saw. Fish only, did you hear?
• 58:35
  Finley screaming at one point we saw fish.
• 58:38
  It was it was huge. It was like, at least like huge
• 58:45
  and. You're going to need a sense of
• 58:46
  Finley. Because there were like a bunch
• 58:47
  of little ones around, like a whole little university of fish.
• 58:50
  There were so many of them just running around everywhere.
• 58:54
  And then this fish came, and it was.
• 58:56
  Huge. At least you know, like this
• 58:58
  big. So I said to Finley, wow, look
• 59:01
  at this big fish. And she goes and she just starts
• 59:05
  screaming and I'm like, please stop.
• 59:10
  It's fine. It's it's going away from you
• 59:13
  and she's just freaking out. And then after that, she didn't
• 59:16
  want to get in the water again for a good while.
• 59:19
  Yeah. But it was.
• 59:25
  So the good thing is Castaway Key, Lookout Key, those are both
• 59:28
  Disney islands. So you're still going to get
• 59:31
  that same Disney feel, that same Disney service cleanliness there
• 59:37
  at those islands. And they're included in your
• 59:39
  cruise. So you don't have to go, you
• 59:42
  know, Hang Gliding with dolphins or whatever they did.
• 59:46
  You know, we did. We did a glass bottom boat tour
• 59:50
  which was very nice. Fish swimming, you know, you
• 59:54
  could see everything. They did a great job of teaching
• 59:57
  you about the Bahamas and all that.
• 59:59
  So you don't even have to do that.
• 1:00:02
  You could stay on the boat when you dock and go and take in, you
• 1:00:06
  know, a movie or this or that. It was, it was really nice.
• 1:00:11
  One of the other things we Nick talked about Pixie dust.
• 1:00:14
  One of the other big things is decorating your door.
• 1:00:16
  You got to do it. You got to do it.
• 1:00:19
  I did not realize how big a thing it was until we got onto
• 1:00:21
  the ship. I also didn't realize that the
• 1:00:23
  thing that you're putting. So let me show this one.
• 1:00:26
  So this is, this is Catherine's door, right?
• 1:00:31
  And the, the pockets there on the right.
• 1:00:34
  I didn't realize that it's called a fish extender.
• 1:00:37
  And I'm like, why do they call it a fish extender?
• 1:00:40
  So I had to look it up and it is simply called a fish extender
• 1:00:43
  because as as you can see, it's hooked onto a fish that's part
• 1:00:47
  of the boat. That's all it is.
• 1:00:49
  It's it's made for that and. From the fish.
• 1:00:52
  Yeah, that's all it is. So that was not.
• 1:00:54
  Always a. Fish No, no, it does it does
• 1:00:56
  change so that was that was our door and then this was their
• 1:01:02
  door. So they themed to to monsters.
• 1:01:06
  So every day you'd go by and Finley love going into the the
• 1:01:13
  pouches and finding, you know, little.
• 1:01:16
  So you can see even in this picture, it's it's full of
• 1:01:18
  stuff. So people are always doing stuff
• 1:01:20
  there. And you know how I like to do
• 1:01:22
  the pins and and the key chains and stuff like that in the
• 1:01:27
  parks. So the next cruise I will be
• 1:01:30
  buying plenty of that stuff to do that.
• 1:01:32
  Have a list of things that I'm going to be making to give away
• 1:01:36
  on our cruise as Pixie dusting and some people they had like
• 1:01:43
  take one leave one for like lollipops or pins and for pin
• 1:01:49
  trading it was great it was some people went all out it was
• 1:01:52
  fantastic that. Doesn't work too well though if
• 1:01:55
  you go. A lot of people have been
• 1:01:57
  complaining, so if you attempt to take one, leave one.
• 1:02:01
  The honest system isn't so honest.
• 1:02:05
  I thought about that, but. With lollipops it wasn't too
• 1:02:07
  bad. The lollipops, no big deal, but
• 1:02:09
  like if you do the pin trading, but that's an issue at the parks
• 1:02:12
  as well, People will just take the pens without trading.
• 1:02:16
  I know on our Facebook group, there's a particular guy, he
• 1:02:21
  brought up an awareness that people were literally taking
• 1:02:25
  what others had gifted him as a Pixie dust.
• 1:02:29
  And he said that he spotted a little girl and she was just
• 1:02:32
  going by each door, taking whatever she wanted out of their
• 1:02:36
  pouches. And of course, reported it.
• 1:02:38
  And they, you know, told her whatever they told her.
• 1:02:40
  But there's an issue where, you know, if someone decided to gift
• 1:02:44
  you, kids are kids, you know, sometimes I don't know if they
• 1:02:48
  just don't know the rules or whatnot, but they do take, you
• 1:02:52
  know, your stuff. So the honest system isn't
• 1:02:54
  always honest, But otherwise it worked great.
• 1:02:58
  So let me cover 2 quick questions here.
• 1:03:04
  Steven, Tony asked, did you have rough seas due to the hurricane?
• 1:03:09
  So of course it's Disney. Of course you've got, you know,
• 1:03:12
  4000 of us on board. They made sure that we were 230
• 1:03:19
  nautical miles from the storm at all times.
• 1:03:24
  So they, they weren't messing around.
• 1:03:26
  If they had to redirect us somewhere to get away from the
• 1:03:28
  storm, they were going to do that.
• 1:03:31
  Did that did cause a little bit of rough seas leaving Mexico
• 1:03:36
  because the pilot had foot to the metal pedal to the metal
• 1:03:41
  getting out of Mexico to keep us away from the storm, to get us
• 1:03:45
  where we needed to go. So that night you could feel the
• 1:03:49
  boat moving. But other than, excuse me, other
• 1:03:52
  than that. Respond well to that night.
• 1:03:54
  We had to get drama mean and she was out until 10:00 the next
• 1:03:57
  day. Yeah, she slept through dinner.
• 1:03:59
  But other than that, it was really comp like.
• 1:04:02
  When we pulled out of the port the first night, I didn't even
• 1:04:07
  realize we were moving. Finley was like.
• 1:04:09
  I knew I got so. Sick.
• 1:04:12
  Oh, did you I? Did not.
• 1:04:13
  Do that. Oh, wow, no, I, I Finley said.
• 1:04:16
  Are we moving? And I'm like, no, you would have
• 1:04:17
  known it. They would have told you.
• 1:04:19
  There would have been announcements.
• 1:04:20
  You would feel it good. For you guys, because I felt
• 1:04:24
  everything. Oh.
• 1:04:27
  I mean, look, when even when we came back from the cruise, like
• 1:04:30
  I, I think I just told you the other day, I stopped swaying
• 1:04:33
  just randomly. You're just like in the shower.
• 1:04:36
  You close your eyes, you're like, why am I swaying?
• 1:04:38
  Because it it it, but it gave me a cozy family.
• 1:04:42
  It was like I want to go back. Corey, did you have that with,
• 1:04:46
  with, with when you got home? Did you have like, I guess they
• 1:04:49
  call that the Sea Lights, right? I think we did.
• 1:04:53
  I think we did. I think Tammy was the worst but
• 1:04:57
  not too bad. I don't, I don't think I that
• 1:04:58
  happened to me, but. And I know, I know with your
• 1:05:01
  cruise, you were, you were worried about, I think mostly
• 1:05:04
  about Tammy because she she she doesn't do as well with like
• 1:05:08
  rides and stuff like that. So what did you prepare?
• 1:05:12
  You know, how did you prepare just in case?
• 1:05:16
  She we we took on a an electronic wristband for her to
• 1:05:22
  try to use. She didn't feel like that really
• 1:05:24
  helped her. We had a couple of rough moments
• 1:05:27
  too and you know, it bothered her a little bit, maybe
• 1:05:33
  moderately a couple of times, but ultimately I I think she did
• 1:05:39
  fine. I think I might have taken my C
• 1:05:42
  bands with me and we did have the things to put behind your
• 1:05:47
  ear as. Well, let me try.
• 1:05:48
  Those we tried those, they may have worked because it wasn't as
• 1:05:52
  bad as we thought it was going to be overall as a trip.
• 1:05:56
  But you know, so they may have worked.
• 1:06:00
  They may have worked to some degree, you know, would have
• 1:06:02
  been worse if we didn't have them.
• 1:06:03
  Maybe. So no way to tell for sure, but
• 1:06:06
  there were moments. There were moments too.
• 1:06:07
  I was like, oh God, I don't feel so great when we.
• 1:06:10
  So apparently when you leave Port Canaveral, that's when
• 1:06:13
  waters are pretty rough and they had port windows when we were
• 1:06:19
  going to dinner the first night and the the waves were covering
• 1:06:23
  half the port window and just doing this, I'm like, we are
• 1:06:27
  just going like a speed boat right now.
• 1:06:29
  I'm like, oh boy, I hope it's not going to be like this the
• 1:06:32
  whole time, but it's best the day it sees beautiful though,
• 1:06:36
  isn't it? It's just.
• 1:06:37
  Just amazing. Doesn't even move.
• 1:06:40
  The boat doesn't even move around the.
• 1:06:41
  Room in your last cruise? Yes, OK, we did.
• 1:06:46
  We had coffee every morning on the Miranda enjoyed that.
• 1:06:52
  Missed. Out dude.
• 1:06:54
  So Tammy said, Tammy said I did and Jill too.
• 1:06:57
  So I don't know what anything Jill did or experienced.
• 1:07:00
  She said the patches work better.
• 1:07:02
  There was one thing. Though that you.
• 1:07:04
  That you mentioned about the storm that I wanted to to point
• 1:07:07
  out is don't be too set in with your plans because originally
• 1:07:16
  Pirate night was supposed to be on my birthday.
• 1:07:19
  So I had planned for my birthday outfit to also coincide really
• 1:07:24
  well with my pirate outfit. And then they changed the days
• 1:07:29
  and it was on a different day. So now not only did I not have
• 1:07:35
  something to wear on either day 'cause if I wore it on one day,
• 1:07:37
  then I obviously couldn't wear it the next day.
• 1:07:41
  But now I have nothing to wear on my birthday.
• 1:07:44
  Like I underpacked. Believe it, I underpacked.
• 1:07:48
  That's what I was thinking. It's your birthday.
• 1:07:50
  Birthday suit. And I did find something that I
• 1:07:53
  like. My friend let me in last minute.
• 1:07:54
  I was like, sure, I'll bring this.
• 1:07:56
  Thank God I brought it because that's what I wore.
• 1:07:59
  But I underpacked. People were always talking about
• 1:08:02
  how they overpack and I didn't pack until two days before we
• 1:08:06
  left. I was so stressed out that I at
• 1:08:10
  the end I was just like, whatever, I'm just bringing
• 1:08:12
  this, this, that and that's it. And I brought exactly what we
• 1:08:16
  needed for exactly the days for exactly the the events and I
• 1:08:22
  under packed. You know, you wake up in the
• 1:08:24
  morning, you might be walking around and like not pajamas, but
• 1:08:27
  some people did, but you might be just walking around like AT
• 1:08:31
  shirt and shorts. But then later you'll go
• 1:08:33
  swimming and you'll change into something else or you'll go meet
• 1:08:36
  the princesses and you don't want to wear AT shirt and shorts
• 1:08:38
  with the princesses, you want to wear something nicer or you want
• 1:08:41
  to change for dinner. So you could have 3 outfits a
• 1:08:43
  day and I did not have 3 outfits a day so I under packed.
• 1:08:51
  Wow, that's something I would ever do.
• 1:08:53
  I thought you would just whip out the sewing machine.
• 1:08:55
  It's material. I should.
• 1:08:56
  Have just brought. My sewing machine, but I don't
• 1:08:58
  think that the plug would have worked.
• 1:08:59
  That's and also you can't bring an iron, so I wouldn't have been
• 1:09:03
  able to iron those shirts, you know?
• 1:09:05
  That's true. Tammy said that Jill and she and
• 1:09:08
  she and Jill swayed a bit after getting home.
• 1:09:11
  And Sharon Hecker says that Catherine loses her girl card
• 1:09:14
  because she she over she underpacked.
• 1:09:18
  Yeah, Christine always overpacks and I'm like, why do we need.
• 1:09:22
  We had like literally what, 2 suitcases full of our costume
• 1:09:26
  stuff? Yeah.
• 1:09:27
  And her ears to the point where when we were leaving we had like
• 1:09:30
  6 bags and the guy leaving was like, did you guys go on triple
• 1:09:33
  vacation? Yeah, I guess.
• 1:09:37
  SO2 attendance and yeah. They cracked jokes at everything
• 1:09:40
  we brought. I could have lent you something,
• 1:09:42
  Cat. I had plenty.
• 1:09:44
  Yes, we totally wear the same size.
• 1:09:46
  Finley wants to say hello. Hi, Finley.
• 1:09:49
  Finley, did you enjoy the cruise?
• 1:09:50
  Do you want to do it again? Yes, all right.
• 1:09:54
  Cool, let's go tomorrow. Kids club, right?
• 1:09:58
  All right, so the kids club is actually pretty.
• 1:10:01
  Cool. Tony asked about the the kids
• 1:10:03
  club and well, you mentioned that a lot of times kids don't
• 1:10:06
  want to leave and they're he's right.
• 1:10:08
  The kids club stays open till midnight.
• 1:10:11
  I think it opens at 9:00 and it stays open till midnight.
• 1:10:14
  And your kids can come and go as as they want to.
• 1:10:18
  Well, let me not say it that way.
• 1:10:20
  You have to check them in and out of the kids club.
• 1:10:25
  But I'll also say this, there's some sort of food until
• 1:10:29
  midnight. There's also room service 24/7.
• 1:10:36
  There is also some sort of entertainment until midnight,
• 1:10:39
  especially if you're a teen or an adult.
• 1:10:44
  Like even right up until midnight, we had the the two
• 1:10:49
  game shows. There was one called Majority
• 1:10:51
  Wins and then the other one was like the dating game.
• 1:10:55
  So even that went in. That was in the lounge or the
• 1:10:57
  bar up until midnight, and there's a lounge that's open
• 1:11:01
  till 2:00 AM. So even though it's Disney,
• 1:11:04
  there's still stuff to do all the time.
• 1:11:08
  We had bingo. Somebody who's on top of
• 1:11:10
  Warren's desk. Yeah, he's he's.
• 1:11:12
  About to so. So there's always, there's
• 1:11:20
  always stuff to do. So, so don't feel like you can't
• 1:11:24
  be entertained just by staying on the ship, even if it was a,
• 1:11:28
  you know, a six or seven night. So all that said, 6. 7 Finley.
• 1:11:35
  6-7 All that said, I am excited because I did there were there
• 1:11:41
  were two things I'll leave you with one buy the whatever it's
• 1:11:47
  called the photo pass version for the cruise before you get on
• 1:11:50
  the cruise because you're going to take all those pictures and.
• 1:11:54
  You're going to want. Them and you're going to want
• 1:11:56
  them. We took over 100 pictures just
• 1:11:58
  us and then however many they took on on their room.
• 1:12:02
  So make sure to buy it beforehand because it is cheaper
• 1:12:06
  #2 when you before you leave, you can do the placeholder,
• 1:12:14
  which is a $250 deposit on your next cruise and it gives you 10%
• 1:12:18
  off of whatever the Disney cruise.com rate is at that time.
• 1:12:23
  Our neighbors across the street did it.
• 1:12:24
  They saved $1000 on their next cruise.
• 1:12:27
  Yeah, yeah. So we have our placeholder
• 1:12:30
  deposit down. Nick has done it because right
• 1:12:36
  now the plan is for us to be on a cruise ship on August 5th.
• 1:12:42
  Is that us? Is that our date?
• 1:12:44
  Is. That our date.
• 1:12:45
  Go fantasy. Let us go.
• 1:12:48
  But sorry, we're going to, we're going to get a, a veranda room.
• 1:12:52
  Yeah, we'll probably have to do a veranda room.
• 1:12:54
  Don't feel guilty because Tammy's feeling Tammy's itching
• 1:12:57
  inching me towards that as well so.
• 1:13:00
  What's the what's the upgrade rate come next door to US?
• 1:13:02
  606 hundred bucks. It might be worth it.
• 1:13:08
  Think about it. We'll.
• 1:13:09
  Finally have coffee there. Yeah, and we can have coffee if
• 1:13:12
  we if Lawrence doesn't join you, I'll join you for coffee can.
• 1:13:16
  So that, that that's 50 by the way, Christina was saying, yeah,
• 1:13:20
  it's refundable. So so you can get right back if
• 1:13:23
  you want. Correct.
• 1:13:24
  You have, what, three years? 2 two years to use it.
• 1:13:26
  Two years to use. It and how much is the photo
• 1:13:28
  packet going for it? Oh good, I'm old now, Corey.
• 1:13:33
  I got. You.
• 1:13:35
  I always what was that like 3. 100 Oh, the grades, yeah, I
• 1:13:41
  think it was. Too much 300.
• 1:13:43
  On the ship, it's a. Little pricey.
• 1:13:44
  I think it's 2:40 if you get it beforehand.
• 1:13:48
  So try and try and get it beforehand and you cannot split
• 1:13:52
  them and kind of share them like friends and family like you can
• 1:13:56
  in the parks. They how much?
• 1:13:58
  Like I think it's like 240 but it's 240 while on.
• 1:14:04
  The boat. That that's unlimited though.
• 1:14:06
  You can, but you can choose like, I don't know if you want
• 1:14:08
  like 10 digital prints, I think it's like 160 or something like
• 1:14:12
  that. And then it's 15 digital prints.
• 1:14:15
  Then there's also printed prints if you want it and the price
• 1:14:17
  goes up. So we just said, let's just get
• 1:14:18
  the unlimited. We're not going to be able to
• 1:14:20
  choose 10 or 15. Just get the whole thing.
• 1:14:23
  And then what we were able to do was I think we, we purchased
• 1:14:26
  ours and Lawrence, you got a discount.
• 1:14:28
  So you can do that. If you make friends with
• 1:14:30
  somebody and they they didn't purchase it, you both could
• 1:14:33
  purchase it and and it would be cheaper.
• 1:14:36
  So Sharon makes a good point. If you have rooms that are next
• 1:14:38
  to each other that have verandas, the wall in between
• 1:14:41
  the verandas come down and then you have this nice big veranda,
• 1:14:45
  correct? I wish we did that, yeah.
• 1:14:47
  OK, did you find it? I got one more question before
• 1:14:51
  we get out of here. Yep, with the photo package
• 1:14:53
  unlimited, did you find it hard to get enough pictures to make
• 1:14:57
  it worth your while? So let me answer that.
• 1:15:00
  No, they have people taking you pictures everywhere.
• 1:15:04
  There was literally a cast member with his pants rolled up
• 1:15:09
  walking in the water at Castaway Key taking pictures of families.
• 1:15:13
  And I called Lawrence over and I was like, come on, take a
• 1:15:15
  picture. What were you saying to me?
• 1:15:16
  I don't know. He was, he was far, so I didn't
• 1:15:18
  understand what he was saying. I was sleeping.
• 1:15:21
  When you were young. No, no, I have my glasses.
• 1:15:25
  I have my my sunglasses on. So you didn't know, but I was
• 1:15:28
  sleeping. So when you called me, I had you
• 1:15:31
  woke me up by calling me. So I I was not all there.
• 1:15:35
  Yeah, So they come, they're they're a castaway key, taking
• 1:15:37
  pictures of people literally, literally in the water.
• 1:15:40
  They come to dinner and they take a picture of you at dinner.
• 1:15:44
  They I believe they take pictures of the kids at Kids
• 1:15:47
  Club. Oh, OK.
• 1:15:50
  They didn't take pictures of you guys with the princesses.
• 1:15:53
  But but at the at the character meet and greets, they're going
• 1:15:56
  to be there. They're.
• 1:15:57
  There at the character meet. Pirate Pirate night was was big.
• 1:16:00
  They also. Have picture backdrops so even
• 1:16:04
  if the character's not there, you can still do a picture
• 1:16:06
  backdrop and there's tons of photo opportunities and it's a
• 1:16:11
  great thing if you just want pictures of your family for your
• 1:16:14
  trip. I know that with Disney, it's
• 1:16:16
  it's about the rides and things like that, but when you're on
• 1:16:20
  the ship, it's it's it's great. I mean, on my birthday, I was
• 1:16:24
  walking around, I woke up early, I was walking around, I went and
• 1:16:27
  I got coffee and I was I had just gotten off the phone with
• 1:16:30
  my coworkers. I'm walking down the hallway and
• 1:16:32
  there's a line. There was like 2-3 people.
• 1:16:35
  It was Donald. So I had a whole interaction
• 1:16:37
  with It was actually a fantastic.
• 1:16:38
  I was just the lady had taken the video.
• 1:16:40
  It was a fantastic interaction with Donald.
• 1:16:43
  So we. We were, yeah.
• 1:16:45
  They're only going to be there for like 15 to 20 minutes.
• 1:16:48
  Yeah, yeah, the characters don't stay long, so get online early,
• 1:16:53
  yeah. So overall great experience.
• 1:16:57
  This was Halloween on the high seas, so your experience will be
• 1:17:01
  a little different when it isn't, but it was it was
• 1:17:04
  certainly worth it. I will tell any of you Disney
• 1:17:07
  folks go on a Disney cruise. You will not be disappointed.
• 1:17:11
  I don't care what what cruise you're on.
• 1:17:14
  We happen to pick this one because of the timing.
• 1:17:16
  So make it. It will be worth your while for
• 1:17:20
  sure. Yes, to celebrate my 40th I
• 1:17:22
  don't look a day over 55. On that note, thank you all for
• 1:17:32
  joining us, Nick and Christina, I appreciate you being here.
• 1:17:36
  Thank you, Catherine. Finley thank you.
• 1:17:39
  Really, really good. Good episode full of good
• 1:17:42
  information. And let me tell you, this is the
• 1:17:44
  first Disney Cruise podcast that we will be having.
• 1:17:48
  We will be having a lot more the cost.
• 1:17:49
  Of money on the road to Pearl. That's right.
• 1:17:52
  That's right. Because now we're a castaway
• 1:17:54
  club member. Silver, Yeah.
• 1:17:59
  There you go, and Nick will have to make sure at least one night
• 1:18:02
  we all sit down on crowd up on the bed and watch the Mickey
• 1:18:05
  shorts at one in the. Morning.
• 1:18:06
  I'm with it. Yes, I'm with it.
• 1:18:09
  Cruz Bros. Cruz Bros.
• 1:18:10
  Cruz Bros. Cruz.
• 1:18:12
  Bros, do we need shirts? These shirts.
• 1:18:16
  These. Shirts.
• 1:18:17
  I'll be the shirts. Ask me how much fabric am I
• 1:18:19
  buying for the next cruise? I said all of it.
• 1:18:23
  I'm gonna be prepared. I'm overpack.
• 1:18:25
  Overpack Oversell. There you go.
• 1:18:28
  I already started, I really did. So those of you that are members
• 1:18:33
  of Skyline and Above for living in Dizz, you can join us on the
• 1:18:36
  Zoom call. We know we are late, but we had
• 1:18:39
  a lot of stuff to cover. Thank you all very much for
• 1:18:43
  joining us, Corey. I will give you the final word.
• 1:18:48
  Final word is this. I'm so glad for all of you.
• 1:18:51
  I was so excited for you to all have such a great time and it
• 1:18:54
  was glad. It was nice to sit back and
• 1:18:56
  listen to all of that with your first, your first experience.
• 1:18:59
  I know I haven't done a Disney 1 yet, but do we Just doing the
• 1:19:02
  Royal last year, I know how great that was.
• 1:19:06
  We had zero issues. Every moment was great.
• 1:19:10
  So I was just so excited for everything you guys were about
• 1:19:13
  to experience from that first vision of pulling up and seeing
• 1:19:16
  the ship and just feeling the coziness once you're inside and
• 1:19:20
  just just taking every moment and we you develop your habits
• 1:19:23
  and things. You know, the atrium became our
• 1:19:26
  late night living room hangout. You know, it's where we got some
• 1:19:29
  free slices of pizza at midnight and, and grab some snacks and
• 1:19:33
  just sat back and people watch. It was, it was a good time and
• 1:19:37
  you do not get to do everything you think you're going to do.
• 1:19:40
  We, we, we had moments where I, I worried about the kids would
• 1:19:43
  be bored and there wasn't even time to even do everything.
• 1:19:46
  The, the thing I did the least, which I thought I'd have too
• 1:19:49
  much time doing, was hanging by the pool.
• 1:19:51
  We really didn't do much of that.
• 1:19:52
  Us too, yeah. One thing I will not miss
• 1:19:57
  because Tammy and I are we love nighttime entertainment when
• 1:20:02
  we're on these kinds of vacations.
• 1:20:04
  You know, we did a lot of resorts and we love to choose
• 1:20:08
  resorts to have night time entertainment and I want to see
• 1:20:11
  all three of those shows. We will not miss this.
• 1:20:13
  Oh yeah. I can't show their their copy
• 1:20:16
  written. I can't show them.
• 1:20:18
  You can't even you can't even take pictures in there.
• 1:20:20
  But oh, I promise you and. There was a magic show too.
• 1:20:24
  That Oh yeah, the magic show. Oh.
• 1:20:26
  My God. He's amazing telling you you
• 1:20:27
  won't you? You'll love the entertainment
• 1:20:29
  there right now, all right? Folks awesome.
• 1:20:33
  All right, well, hey, we do this live because we do it for you
• 1:20:36
  and we we appreciate each and everyone of you how you watch or
• 1:20:39
  see us. And once again, you can do it
• 1:20:41
  right here on the Dizpod channel on its own on YouTube, you can
• 1:20:43
  do the YouTube Music app. You can do Amazon, iHeartRadio,
• 1:20:47
  Spotify and Apple as well. So want to thank our guests one
• 1:20:53
  more time. Love you guys.
• 1:20:54
  You're all family. You're not even friends.
• 1:20:57
  And thank you for for everything.
• 1:20:59
  Tonight was awesome, and for now we're just a couple of Bros
• 1:21:02
  talking Disney. Good night everyone.