00:00.41 dclduo Welcome back, everybody to this week's episode of the Dc L Duo Podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel and got to start by welcoming Sam it's lunchtime Sam's enjoying some popcorn in her green room and that is lunch for us today. But Sam how you doing. 00:20.21 Sam I'm doing good. How are you enjoying your green room snacks I must say usually I'm the one who's the only one enjoying snacks. But this time I had to bring you snacks. So how are you enjoying your green room snacks. 00:26.96 dclduo Yeah, my boom chick pop white shater popcorn is delicious along with a um I think it's called a Mexican Coca-cola because it has the real cane sugar in it. So ah coke boom chick pop if you're looking for some real influencers out there to sell your products we're here for you. 00:37.80 Sam That's right. 00:43.51 Sam Ah, you end Topo Chico let's not forget Topo Chico call me call me I'm doing the call me sign Topa Chico call me I'm happy to advertise for you since I pretty much do so every show for free. 00:45.50 dclduo Can pay us some boom Chicken pop on Tobo chico. 00:56.91 dclduo Well, we're excited. Well, we're excited because we have not 1 not 2 but 3 guests this evening on the show. Ah two of them are repeat 2 time repeat guests. This will be their None time on the show. So when we start by welcoming Mike and Connie to the show. Welcome Mike and Connie. 01:12.25 Mike and Connie Hello! Thank you Good to be back. 01:15.33 Sam Yeah, good to have you back. It's been a while. 01:15.62 dclduo Yeah, great to have you? Yeah I think our last conversation might have been the Maiden Voyages which we've now experienced our none and so we feel like we've accomplished something with Disney Crews ah but excited to have you back and. You of course have invited your daughter to join us lean Ann ah lean ann welcome to our show. Yeah, so tonight's topic is going to be really fun because Leann grew up on Disney Cruise line we actually 01:36.56 LeeAnn Thank you I'm very excited. 01:47.56 dclduo Just had a guest. We talked to recently who had started cruising at age 6 and had been on 58 Disney cruises. So excited to talk to len about her experience growing up on Disney Cruise line and of course we've got Mike and Connie joining us to ah comment and correct Leann's memory as we go but also also because. 01:59.10 Mike and Connie Um, ah. 02:03.00 dclduo We wanted to talk about multi-generational cruising because Leann herself is now a parent and so has gone from being a kids club aficionado to a parent herself and so this is Goingnna be a great great great conversation. We think so leann we want to start with you. We always start with our guests Disney Cruising background so when did you start Disney Cruise so when did you start sailing Disney Cruise line how many Disney cruises have you been on and have you experienced other cruise lines. 02:31.13 LeeAnn I've been on None disney cruises so far so I'm inching up my way to platinum. Um, so my first cruise I was in none grade and. My parents tell me we were supposed to be on the maiden voyage. But then it got canceled and we had to rebook multiple times but it was still within that first year of Disney Cruise um so going None times throughout my lifetime I've definitely got spoiled by Disney Cruise we have done some others I've been on royal caribbean carnival. and norwegian and Disney Cruise is just so far above and beyond everything else that it now takes me some convincing to go on any other cruise line. 03:11.79 Sam Ah, Brian you're on mute I can. 03:14.81 dclduo I yeah hey Mike I accidentally and I accidentally muted you in the interface I meant to meet myself but I clicked so there's a little little. There's a little microphone icon with a slash you just want to click on that sorry about that up can they not hear us again. 03:22.90 Sam Microphone. 03:32.14 Sam I don't know hello Lee Ann can you hear us? Okay, darn it. Hopefully here. Do you want to? um, put in the chat Brian. 03:36.28 dclduo See if I can. 03:37.42 LeeAnn I can. 03:46.44 dclduo Yeah, except my hands are covered in. Can you type it My I don't know why I want me unmute them. 03:49.75 Sam Oh yeah, ah do to do. Oh leans beat me to it. Oh I thought I heard them for a se. But no there you go Yay! okay. 04:01.70 Mike and Connie So how's that. 04:01.87 dclduo Up there there you go? Yeah sorry Mike that was my mistake. Not yours there we go all right? um and sorry lean in that moment of did did you mention have you been on other cruise lines did you mention that perfect all right all right. 04:02.75 LeeAnn There we go. 04:12.80 Sam Yes, and but she she mentioned the other ones but that Disney is way better. Basic. 04:13.46 LeeAnn A debt. 04:21.70 dclduo And Mike Connie you want to remind our listeners of your background with cruising and Disney Cruz line as well. 04:25.25 Mike and Connie 24 Disney cruises now only 23 for me. Oh yeah, well that's kind of a sore spot. But anyway it was his mother that I took on the other. Ah, exactly. 04:36.93 Sam Ah, so you got to get credit for that connie. But. 04:41.81 Mike and Connie And we have been on others. We've been on carnival as well as norwegian and Roy Caribbean that len mentioned we've also been on princess princess and hal. Yeah one each of all of those and that tells you how much we love disney. Way more than the others. 05:00.90 Sam Right? You felt like you needed to try the others and then you were like meh we tried it. 05:04.91 Mike and Connie You know that's absolutely true. We've had friends that have said well you know you should go and try this and try this? No, we just come right back to Disney we just love the the service. We love the food. We love the atmosphere. We love the entertainment. It can't be beat. Yeah, they dangle those cheap prices out there. But then we see the value of what we're getting exactly. 05:23.20 Sam Um. 05:29.96 Sam Yeah, we hear that from ah we hear that from a lot of people. 05:31.76 dclduo Yes, in the. 05:36.63 Mike and Connie Yeah, you get what you pay for. 05:36.70 dclduo Yeah, and the price is and the prices just keep going up the wish has like a thousand dollar premium on it right now. So Disney Griz line is not hit the wall on pricing yet. Unfortunately we keep hoping they'll start to go down. But. 05:48.12 Mike and Connie Out. So I'm glad we booked early I mean we booked early the ship again. This is what happened to us our very none time was not ready and so we got to rebook at half price. So since it was half price. And Leann's family is going with us as well. We are booked in concierge to try that Mike's concern is now that's all I'm going to want to do is concierge. So. 06:11.54 Sam Yeah, yeah, that's ah, that's a valid concern Mike because that's what Brian did to me and now I only I mean we sailed regular on the wish. But ah yeah I really only want to see here. It's terrible. 06:28.86 dclduo Well. 06:30.79 Sam Well I think you guys will enjoy that experience and I think you'll enjoy the wish quite a bit. 06:33.91 dclduo Um, yes, yes, well let's die. Yeah well the kids club on the wish are amazing. So yes, they should. But. 06:36.30 LeeAnn My kids are so looking forward to it I mean they made us rebook our we were planning on going on the wonder to Alaska um this summer and then we saw some Disney promotional video about the wish and they decided. 06:36.94 Mike and Connie I'm sure. 06:39.64 Sam Awesome. 06:55.27 LeeAnn They needed to check out all the kids club stuff and the slide down to the kids club so we decided while they're still young while they're excited about the kids club we would change and set on the wish and now obviously that's delayed for almost another year but they're still gonna have a good time. 07:07.25 Sam Ah, yeah, well and honestly I mean Nathan just loved loved loved the kids club on the wish I mean he he likes a kids club on the other ships as well. But there was just the interactive activities. In the the new oceaners club on the wish are just kind of above and beyond but that let was sorry. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly? Well they had lots of open house hours that first day and then had open house hours for you know, different. 07:27.90 Mike and Connie Oh I can I can hardly wait till it's parent time and grandparent time to go in there and check it out. 07:42.92 Sam Parts of the the club on on different days but that brings us to the topic of today which is growing up on Dc. You said lean that you your None Cruise was in none grade so you would have been. Still oceanes club age but kind of or or I guess you would have probably been in the overlap between oceane's club and edge is that right. 08:09.11 LeeAnn I was I was just ocean ears Club I Don't think they had the edge at that point they did. 08:11.46 Mike and Connie That's. 08:12.59 Sam Nice. Ah. 08:14.73 Mike and Connie They did. Yeah it was 1998 we ended up on cruise 12 So so it still was very early in the process but her sister chose to stay with her and yeah, even though her sister's 2 years older 08:21.14 Sam Oh my goodness. 08:30.39 Sam Yeah. 08:33.82 dclduo Um, so Liam. What's your earliest memory on Disney Cruise line 08:34.64 Mike and Connie Yeah. 08:38.31 LeeAnn I remember there was one night that they were going to be having pizza for dinner in the kids club and I was like oh how cool would that be to have pizza for dinner in the kids club instead of going to the boring restaurant and obviously it was just you know Pinocchio's pizza from the top deck and. 08:54.47 Sam Ah, so. 08:58.40 LeeAnn So once we got the pizza I was like oh right I could have had this any time but I still remember that night. We went and ate on the basketball court and just thought it was you know the coolest thing right? yeah. 09:07.39 Sam Yeah, 1 you got to eat with the other kids instead of eating with your parents right? I mean that's that's pretty cool. Well. 09:15.62 LeeAnn You know and going into it like said I was None grade so that's kind of about the time where you're kind of you don't want to be too excited about anything. You're kind of too cool for a lot of things but as soon as I got in there I was like okay yeah, this is cool. This is fine. 09:26.80 Sam Yeah, what kinds of stuff back then were you really into on the cruises. So you'd obviously you got you were sailing with your your parents and your sister your old your sister who's older right. 09:41.54 LeeAnn She's two years older 09:42.74 Sam Okay, and so what kinds of stuff were you getting up to kind of on your own and then we'll talk about sort of the family stuff you guys did back then when you first started cruising. 09:54.50 LeeAnn It's funny. You mentioned that because I remember when we were younger when we went to Disney World I was so desperate to convince my parents that we could go off on around the 2 of us and would be totally fine which now as a parent I'm like obviously not. That's insane but on a Disney Cruise you know you're confined and so it was fine for us to kind of be on our own going to the kids club or you know when we got older to the teen club. Um, so that was I thought so cool that we could kind of just be responsible for ourselves and independent. Um, so I mean we did a lot of the pool and snacking at like the stuff up there and then in the kids clubs. You know this was before Andy's room and pixie hollow and the imagineering and all the super awesome fun stuff that they've got going on now but they still had you know dance dance revolution and karaoke and. That kind of super cool stuff. Um, but you know that's that's what we were interested in so we did a lot of karaoke I think. 10:47.66 Sam Nice and Mike and Connie what kind of you know, freedom or or restrictions did you kind of put on on the girls when they when you first started cruising as far as what they what they were you know allowed to do on their own versus what they needed to be around. 11:05.62 Mike and Connie Well, you know they were older. Um so not very many restrictions. Our main restriction with them with all of our kids as they've gone is you have to have dinner with us. We want to see you once a day to make sure you're still on this ship. Um. 11:05.72 Sam And hang out with you guys for. 11:21.28 Sam Right. 11:25.27 Mike and Connie But they pretty much did their own thing and they would tell us what they were going to do and at the time I think they had the little phones didn't they the wave funds wave funds. Yeah, and so they could contact us. 11:32.70 Sam Oh yeah, those weight owns. 11:39.61 Mike and Connie At the time when we were None going on the cruise they were a little hesitant about the kids club and the first night they had meet the counselors and we told them okay, you have to go to that that after that you can choose whether or not you want to go to the kids club. 11:42.84 Sam This is. 11:57.16 Mike and Connie Then after they meet the counselors club. That's when we had to make the rule that they had to have dinner with us because they didn't want to spend any more time with us. 12:04.34 Sam Ah, yeah I can I can imagine that that was ah our experience on the on the wish on the maiden voyage Nathan he didn't even want to come out for dinner. He just wanted to stay in there. Yeah, all day. The entire crew is pretty but. 12:19.52 Mike and Connie The kids club were a little bit more structured at that time because after the first night parents were not allowed in there at all. There were no open house times but lean was old enough that she could check herself in and out. 12:23.10 Sam Um. Oh interesting. Um, yeah, yeah, that's that's ah, it's one of the nice things about being on a cruise like leann mentioned it's confined and so. 12:37.48 Mike and Connie Till we let we let her do that. 12:49.86 Sam You can give kids some freedom a little earlier you wouldn't do that. Maybe at a Disney park. You wouldn't let a probably wouldn't let a twelve year old go around by themselves at Walt Disney World but on a cruise there's ah it's just a very different environment. 13:03.30 Mike and Connie Yes, and we would see them during the day I remember 1 time they were doing a scavenger hunt with a little camera and you know we pass in the hall or pass on the top deck. Whatever so we we knew they were there. 13:16.24 LeeAnn Or even on Castaway key you know they have scuttles cove. They had a teen beach that we could kind of be doing our own thing but still supervised. 13:27.57 dclduo I so and I asked you what your earliest memory is aboard Disney Cruise lineme me asked. What was your favorite memory as a kid from Disney Cruise line 13:37.15 LeeAnn Um, we did None kind of excursion that was like a teen action teen adventure something and so we got to go like. Kayaking over by the teen beach and kind of just it included all the fun extra stuff that you can do at Castaway key so I remember doing that um with my sister and that was just a ah fun extra thing that we didn't typically do. 14:09.30 dclduo And and did you and your sister have any maybe I'll call them traditions on board Disney Cruise line 14:18.75 LeeAnn Not really that I can think of I do remember we when we were both 18 and able to get to the adult areas that was a big deal when I finally turned 18 and we could go to the adult pool or we got to go to pallo brunch for the None time that was you know. 14:37.98 Sam You Oh how did how did um, things go when you sort of got older and changed clubs like did you did you spend as much time in let's say you know the preteen club as you had at the kids club. 14:38.80 LeeAnn We had made it. 14:56.35 Sam And then same for you know the the teen club right? because you sort of every few years you're sort of changing which which club you are a member of. 15:06.23 LeeAnn I think we we did because they still had organized activities like the scage entrance in karaoke and then it was just as much as I love my sister sometimes you want to hang out with other people right? So then there were other. Teens there that we could hang out that was still you know more fun than hanging out with my parents and so I think you know if I went as a teen today those those friendships you know would have been able to be maintained over Facebook or social media. Obviously none of that was around when I was younger. But. Kind of things that you develop kind of these are the couple people that I'm hanging out with on the screws so we did definitely partake in and the other clubs as we got older but then we would also you know do some stuff on our own too just around the ship. 15:54.66 Sam Yeah, that is a really good point. It's very different probably for kids cruising now who if they want can actually keep in touch with the friends that they've made on the ship. Um, and and obviously was different when when you were cruising. There wasn't you know. 15:55.50 Mike and Connie I. 16:13.81 Sam Facebook and maybe mys space was available but it wasn't popular. Um, yeah, so ah I mean they were all over the place and my space. Ah, but yeah I mean. 16:19.61 dclduo Just check out http://myspace.com/dc duo for all of your social media needs just stay connected to the show. Yeah. 16:28.62 LeeAnn Well I've even seen I've seen kids and parents you know joining a Facebook group for their crews and meeting beforehand even and so then you've already got a connection with somebody there that you're going to feel comfortable with hanging out with and the club. Yeah that's definitely something that we did not have. 16:45.61 Sam Yeah, so the the friends that you were making these were like I'm going to call them transient friends meaning they they weren't homeless people but they were transient and that you you probably were never going to see them again. Wow. 16:58.15 LeeAnn Right. 17:02.47 Sam That's a really different experience I hadn't really thought about it. 17:05.77 dclduo Yeah, what. 17:06.87 Mike and Connie I Will say my favorite memory of her and in the child's club is this is something I don't think they do anymore is say practice during the the time that we were on the ship and at the the last day they all had their cute little t-shirt and. They sang a song that they had practiced for us in the main Theater. So These kids little kids were up on the stage doing their thing and it was absolutely adorable. 17:33.52 Sam Oh so they did like a little show a little for the parents. Oh my goodness. Okay Disney if you're listening bring that back that sounds kind of awesome I mean not necessarily awesome for the kids but awesome for the parents. 17:38.19 Mike and Connie They did. 17:43.73 Mike and Connie And so. 17:50.80 LeeAnn Um, and I don't remember that at all pictures I mean nowadays there would be 8000 cell phone videos of it. But. 17:50.33 dclduo And. 17:52.39 Mike and Connie But we have pictures we know So ah. 17:52.51 Sam And that how funny. 17:58.50 Sam Right? Which may might not be the best thing I mean maybe that's a reason not to have it. You know it. 17:59.20 dclduo Yeah. 18:04.98 dclduo Well I always find this interesting too. So This is really interesting to me because you have memories from your time cruising as a kid your parents have these memories of your time cruising as a kid and I feel like we get asked a lot or there's a lot of discussion out there around when should I take my kids to the parks and when are they going to make the most memories and remember everything. Um, I'm Curious. What's your most vivid memory from sailing as a kid leann. 18:30.93 LeeAnn Um, one. 18:42.16 LeeAnn I Think my most vivid memories are in the dining rooms. Um, and maybe that's because we have more pictures from there but you know just the the show that the waitstaff puts on and you know having my. 18:59.40 Sam Assist if. 18:59.16 LeeAnn Drink order for me there the None night and um, you know wait there were all 6 of us. There are four kids so when we first started accruising all you all 6 of us were there and that was the time that we were all together so that's probably my most vivid memories. 19:14.20 dclduo And so then I want to go to Mike and Kanye and ask what's your you know, like favorite memory from this period of sailing with your kids. 19:23.58 Mike and Connie Um, I'm kind of thinking about the dining room too I was thinking about tonight that our head server and this was not one of the first ones this was probably after they'd sailed 2 or 3 times it came over and did the bananas foster with the flame and the entire thing and the girls were. 19:39.22 Sam Are you. 19:42.82 Mike and Connie So impressed. Um, and course they couldn't have any of it because it had liquor in it I guess but but watching you know they did it. Yeah, they did it right at our table and just the special things that they did for them like when. 19:50.84 Sam It's right asrem de banana. 20:00.62 Mike and Connie They had been eating fancy food all week and the last night they were like we just want Mac and cheese and they brought them out the huge bowls I'm sure Lee and does remember that of Mac and cheese. Um and missy said no she didn't want anything for dessert so they brought her out. 20:08.45 LeeAnn Oh yeah. 20:18.32 Mike and Connie Ah, you know a plate with chocolate written nothing on it just just the fun little things that they do for the kids Even you know even though they were teens at that point So one of my favorite memories is we got off a cruise. 20:28.80 Sam Um, yeah, yeah. 20:35.33 Mike and Connie Went to Disney world and we're eating at Tony's and we sit down at the table and I'm looking at Leann and Michelle and I tell them nobody is coming to put your napkin in your lap. You're going to have to do that yourself but make Disney world. But we're getting back to the real world now. 20:49.22 dclduo Um. Yeah I Always tell people you want to do the Cruise. It's rough doing like the parks after a cruise because you're just so used to like walking into a buffet and grabbing some soda and some food and walking out. It's like insulting almost be like I have to pay for this food. Ah um, yeah. 20:54.31 Mike and Connie And. 20:54.55 Sam And how true. 21:06.99 Mike and Connie Um, ah. 21:07.76 Sam Right? You mean I can't order 4 things without paying for four things that's crazy. Yeah. 21:13.23 dclduo Yeah, yeah, lean I want to rewind back to something you mentioned which was you know when you turned 18 you suddenly got to go to these you know new venues and spaces and things like that. What was that like because I've always been curious. What the experience is like for the the you know the. 21:14.30 Mike and Connie And. 21:29.94 dclduo At the new adults on board. The 1820 s society. You know in Disney language. What was that like for you to be able to be in those venues but you know, um, you're not old enough to have a drink. Yeah, um, and so I'm just curious what that was like for you. 21:37.99 Sam Still couldn't drink. 21:39.71 LeeAnn I Definitely feel like some of the adults were looking at us like are you really supposed to be here like you're encroaching on our quiet space and I remember you know. Trying to not be too loud because still basically a teenager but technically allowed to be there like you know, just trying to you know, respect other people but ah like I said when we got to go to Pollo Brunch I think that was like the epitome of high class and we had to bring you know, special clothes just for that and. 22:14.20 Sam Oh that's right. 22:17.26 LeeAnn It's um, so that was that was the the major moment for us. 22:24.77 dclduo What's the and sorry only do another aside um from your cruising have you been on all four ships. Did you say that upfront. Okay, um, so having been on all 4 shipsley and what was your favorite ship to sail on as a kid. 22:29.68 LeeAnn I have. 22:39.52 LeeAnn So when I was a kid I was only the magic and the wonder. Um. 22:42.34 dclduo Okay. 22:43.19 Sam Right? That's all that was available Brian. 22:47.25 dclduo Yeah, no I know but what did you have a favorite amongst the 2 of them. 22:50.84 LeeAnn I Don't know that I did um and now you know I have not been on either of them since they have been redone So that's something that's on my list is kind of go back and and see all of the new stuff that they've done on them. 23:06.96 Sam Oh yeah, and magic's getting ready for another dry duck. So she's going to have even more new stuff by some time I think mid next year 23:17.94 dclduo And what was your experience like with ports again I Always wonder what my son thinks about these ports that we take him off the ship in and like what do you remember is he probably just remembers. There was a beach with some sand and some water and we had a good time but when did you do you have any memories of visiting these ports. 23:34.14 LeeAnn I mean my most vivid memories are of Castaway key you know going to the family beach going to the teen beach or they have you know the giant board games and stuff to play and just hanging out there. Um. You know we eventually we stopped as many people do stopped getting off the boat at Nasa so I do remember kind of walking around and maybe doing a discursion the none time or 2 that we were there but then eventually just taking advantage of that time on the boat to do you know the pool and other things that we wanted to do when it was maybe a little bit less busy. 24:09.28 Sam You missed the you miss the amazing port that is Nasa say it ain't so what a strange thing. 24:11.40 LeeAnn Which now you know it's not even less busy. It's weird. It's weird right. 24:18.35 dclduo And and and did you experience the Aqua dunk as a kid. 24:25.95 LeeAnn No I don't think I did mom correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah yeah, but. 24:28.78 Mike and Connie You have not we it was after they've redone the ship dad dad and I have donek. It's it's it's interesting. 24:35.12 Sam Yeah, and yeah, we have not been on the aqua dunk yet. We're gonna be checking that out. Ah actually in a few weeks now just Brian and I so we will ah we will be able to say which one is better Aqua Dunk aqua duck 24:53.37 LeeAnn Um. 24:54.50 Sam Or Aqua mouse. So yeah. 24:54.38 dclduo Yeah, we'll have to find a way to control. We'll have to find a way to control for weather because I'm bringing exactly 1 swimsuit getting in the aquedunc and then immediately bolting to a hot tub because it's going to be like in the sixty s when we're there. So. 24:54.71 Mike and Connie Um, when is it. 25:04.97 Sam Yeah, it's September we we will be on. Yeah we will be on the norwegian fjords cruise out of dover. 25:05.15 Mike and Connie Ah, when is that? Okay, oh. 25:13.60 LeeAnn Ah. 25:13.82 Mike and Connie Oh I'm jealous we will be on the magic but it won't be until New Year's out of galveson since Galvis and so close. 25:20.16 Sam Oh nice, Very nice. Ah awesome I'd love I'd love to hear about the transition to being from being a kid on the cruise land to being a parent on the cruise and you know what. 25:25.85 dclduo Well. 25:39.75 Sam The what your None experience was ah taking your own kid or kids on the cruise. 25:46.44 LeeAnn Well, our none experience was pretty rough I'm not going to lie. My son was not quite too so he couldn't go to the kids clubs. Um, we didn't want to pay a whole lot for him to be in the nursery very much. So um. We just kind of kept him with us which pretty fairly limited. You know the the mount times to go to the adults area or you know those kinds of things we could do and then he was still taking naps so one of us would go lay down with him in the afternoon. Um, now. My daughter was. About to turn None so she was able to go to the kids area but she really wasn't super interested in much we would look at the navigator and say like oh here's a doc mc stuffins is going to come make a stethoscope with you so we would pick out things. 26:41.81 Sam Um. 26:41.81 LeeAnn That we knew she would be interested in and say ok, you're going to be here for an hour and then we'll come back and get you and if you want to stay that's fine and if not that's Fine. We'll go do something else but she was really not super interested in staying in there very long so we didn't have a whole lot of relaxing time now. The benefit of traveling with your parents is that they can help. As well with the kids so we did have sometimes where we were you know wanted really wanted to go see this movie that was playing in the theater and with two young kids. We didn't really get to go to the movies at home. So we would you know get to go do that or get to go playing in the hot tub or the pool a little bit by ourselves. But it's their vacation too. So We also didn't want to Take. Advantage of that. Um and have them with the kids too much so that one was maybe not. 27:24.29 dclduo I Find my parents are usually just elbowing me out of the way to get to our son and then you know I Fair fair enough, fair enough fair enough. 27:27.84 Sam And depends on depends on where we are and what we're doing brian you know that. But I yeah I would I would love to hear from Mike and Connie what was your yours. 27:32.27 LeeAnn Yeah, so that one was was maybe not the most relaxing cruise. 27:46.62 Sam None experience as grandparents on a cruise meaning when your grandkids were actually you know on the cruise with you and you know how did that compare. 27:52.74 Mike and Connie Our our first one was was eleanor. Yeah, our yeah, our our None one was our oldest granddaughter and at first we were going to take a cruise just with her and now Michelle was. 28:03.10 Sam M. 28:08.60 Mike and Connie At that time working at well Disney world. So she decided she'd go with us a cruise out out of port canary then my son joined us then our son joined us and lean and Josh joined us this is before they had any children so everybody went except for our granddaughter's parents. Yes. 28:27.20 Sam Ah, well, that's. 28:27.83 Mike and Connie And actually it was actually fun. So yeah. 28:30.64 LeeAnn It was that was a great one because then I was just an aunt and totally different. Yeah, so then. 28:31.71 Sam Yeah, so yeah, was just going to say that when you're an aunt to so it's a different role right than being a parent. Yeah, and. 28:38.54 Mike and Connie Me yeah, and she was a little older I think what she was about None or so then um and so she did do a lot of the kids stuff. Um, yeah, it was good. Yeah, so so we've been on that with her. Ah, our son. We've been on a cruise with him out of Galveston with his whole family. Yes, his whole family and then of course ah a couple of times with Leann and and we have we have None coming up in January with our daughter Michelle and her family. So I remember lots of trips to ice cream. Yes, lots of ice cream. Ah yes, absolutely like yeah but. 29:17.44 Sam Nice. 29:20.88 LeeAnn And 1 29:24.67 dclduo Ah, yeah, pop up is up. Yeah yeah, why was why was our son throwing up so much in the bathroom last night. He only had sixteen ice cream cones. Ah. 29:24.68 Sam 1 especially when you're the grandparents you're like I can you know I can give them as much ice cream who's going to who's going to tell me? no ah. 29:30.84 LeeAnn She says specific. 29:34.68 Mike and Connie Are. 29:37.34 Sam Ah, well no, but the the but the kids' parents weren't even with them. So yeah. 29:43.65 dclduo Oh yeah, I'll see yes I see I have 1 rule on my end of things if Nathan's going on a cruise I'm going on a cru. So. 29:48.67 Mike and Connie And. 29:52.22 Sam But that explains Mike and Connie how you guys have been able to how you guys have been on so many more cruises I'm sure some just the 2 of you now? Um, but but so many more cruises than your kids because you know you can take this kid or that kid or this grandkid or that grandkid you don't have to take them all at once. 30:00.44 Mike and Connie Yes. 30:08.99 Mike and Connie And we do the same thing at Disney World um is so much more enjoyable having you know 1 or 2 versus all 8 of them. It would be just craziness. Um, and we've even had leans we had lean sun a few days. 30:11.18 Sam You get. 30:28.51 Mike and Connie By ourselves and then since Hannah was already in school. They joined us afterward for cruise. Um, so it's nice to be able to even have the 1 on 1 time with the brother and sister. 30:41.60 Sam Yeah, that's great. 30:45.70 dclduo What's it like planning for those cruises and there is a bit of logistics here to deal with you know if you've got kids on board and like the parents aren't with you. You've got to assume have some appropriate documentation for them to sail and. 30:56.45 Mike and Connie Correct. 31:00.30 dclduo You've got all the check in processes to make sure everyone's on there who can check them in and out and take them off the ship. So what's the planning like and the logistics like for that. 31:08.58 LeeAnn Well for the most part I will kind of take care of these are the things my kids will be interested in so these are the excursions We're planning on going on. You are free to come with us if you want or do something else if you want or sometimes I think got our last cruise. 31:08.81 Mike and Connie Set. 31:17.51 Sam Um. 31:26.30 LeeAnn We had one stop where my parents took both the kids on an excursion and then my husband and I were able to go do an excursion on our own but that kind of works when we go to Disney World or Disney Cruise you know I'm kind of the one that knows what the kids are into at that moment and so I say this is what we're doing. Love to have you join us understand if you don't want to. 31:45.66 Sam Yeah, so it's kind of a divide and conquer right? I mean you're not all doing everything together but you are probably doing a lot of things together but that the more people you have the more flexibility Frankly, you have to do different or I should say the more adults you have. 31:55.43 LeeAnn Right. 32:04.81 Sam Flexibility you have to do different things. The the kids don't really more kids doesn't provide more flexibility more kids equals less flexibility. But. 32:11.82 LeeAnn Yeah. 32:12.70 Mike and Connie and and I will say on our none anniversary. We took everyone and there was only eleanor and she did not go. She was just a tiny baby at the time on a Disney Cruise and the lovely thing what you were saying. Is not everyone has to do everything together. Um, again, just like when they were kids we want to see you at dinner. Um, but then you go in to do something like a ah cooking class or whatever and oh well there's my son and so. 32:33.89 Sam You see. 32:51.44 Mike and Connie We did some things together. We didn't do some things together my son at the end of the week said this is the best vacation this family has ever had I spent a week with all of you and I don't want to kill anyone ah, which for him. 33:03.36 Sam Um, ah ah yeah I don't want to yeah, that's what's a big deal. Yeah well yeah I mean the the nice thing is it's like you don't have to share rooms right? That's the other part that's really nice like I feel like. 33:05.19 dclduo Ah, the yard sick of a good vacation I don't want to commit homicide there. You go. Ah. 33:10.97 Mike and Connie Yeah, so for him that was quite the compliment. You know. 33:23.40 Sam If you go on ah a land base vacation. You might like rent a house altogether or something and then everybody's like in each other's hair right? all the time when you are on a cruise each each nuclear family probably is getting their own stateroom and. 33:31.68 Mike and Connie Right. 33:41.56 Sam You're not on top of each other. You don't It's not forced time together except like maybe dinner if you have a you know a dinner rule. Um, but yeah I mean you can really spend the time together without feeling like you're spending too much time together. 33:57.41 Mike and Connie Right? So well Sam one one of the deals and you talk about the planning is we typically do get a connecting stateroom and with the connecting stateroom then we'll also have the veranda opened up so with the veranda opened. 33:59.42 Sam That makes sense. 34:05.80 Sam Um, yeah. 34:05.81 dclduo You hear. 34:06.42 LeeAnn Okay. 34:10.86 Sam Yeah, that could create a little too much talk togetherness but I know. 34:17.40 Mike and Connie So so we we are like we're in 1 big room because the grandkids are going back and forth between the 2 rooms a lot of the times and they'll even do this circular around out the door. 34:24.30 Sam This is. 34:34.46 Mike and Connie Then out on the veranda and they can just they can just make a ah circle all the way around and. 34:38.83 LeeAnn My kids need to run laps apparently to get ah their energy out. 34:40.65 Sam Right? right? They they got to they got to get their wiggles out. We know how with that's yeah, he was doing a running race. Yeah. 34:44.50 dclduo Hey our son used to just run circles around the backyard and and say he was so he was jogging so there you go? Um, yeah, yeah, well so in the room side of things. It sounds like you you get connecting state rooms I am curious to go back for a second on the. 34:48.77 Mike and Connie Um. 35:00.47 dclduo Documentation piece. Ah when did you decide to get your kids passports versus traveling on Birth certificates. 35:05.60 LeeAnn We actually don't have passports for them yet. Um, yeah, we've we've just done the 2 cruises with them and they've been. You know the the kind where they're not required. Um I think before our next cruise though we probably will because it is just. 35:07.40 Sam Um, oh. 35:16.17 dclduo Um. 35:16.24 Sam This is. 35:22.69 LeeAnn It's taking a risk and I'm getting less and less comfortable with that risk that nothing's going to happen. You know that that we don't need to come back or something. So. 35:29.92 dclduo Yeah, and and the risk there I think you're identifying is if you if something does happen on the cruise you have to be put off at a foreign port. Typically you need some kind of a passport to get back in to the us. Yeah yeah, Mike Honey when when did you look at getting passports for the kids as you were traveling with them. 35:39.62 LeeAnn Right. 35:47.30 Mike and Connie I don't think we did until the girls were in high school when the older 2 had you know left home. Um, then we did more traveling with Lee Ann and Michelle. 36:01.67 Sam This is. 36:04.12 Mike and Connie Um, and at that point we got passports because we went to Disneyland Paris we had to have a passport. So at that point we we had them? yeah Brian and 9098 it was a different world exactly that was pre nine eleven yeah. 36:09.50 dclduo Um, who. 36:15.83 dclduo Sure yeah, what? what? about? ah as you travel now you you mentioned the Cruise where you took one of your grandkids without the parents. What did you have in tow with you to allow that to happen. 36:18.82 Sam Oh yeah. 36:25.70 Mike and Connie You know we've done that with more than None grandchild. So now there there have documentation on the website that you have to have filled out as well as we got letters that gave permission. To take them out of the country from the parents. We got their copies of their health insurance cards and of course a certified birth certificate. Um, just everything that you could think of I think we more than covered ourselves. But. 36:58.16 Sam Yeah, did you have to have and the letters notarized The the letter giving you permission and that sort of a thing. Yeah. 37:03.76 Mike and Connie Yes, yes. 37:06.64 dclduo Yeah, we also typically get a letter if if we're leaving our son behind with a family member while we go off in gallivant around the we'll also typically leave them with some form of a like a health authorization which I think is a good thing to to have as well. So that if something happens they can. 37:24.57 Mike and Connie Absolutely. 37:26.68 dclduo Authorized medical medical treatment yeah um and then as you register for cruises now you typically have requirements for who can take the kids off the boat or not and I don't know if ah Leann or Connie one of you want to talk through those requirements. 37:43.56 LeeAnn Yeah I believe that anyone in the stateroom with the child is allowed. But then we would have to provide um permission I think just online as we did the kind of registration of who else was allowed. So. 37:56.98 Mike and Connie Yes. 38:00.44 LeeAnn We tend to split up who is in each stateroom so that we have one Platinum member in each stateroom so that we can take advantage of of that so we'll have ah like a girl's one and a boy's one and so then we'll just have to make sure that everybody's cross authororized to to take the kids off. 38:05.74 dclduo Yep, very smart. 38:13.89 Sam Yeah, and we we've done that while on board. Even even if so if you forget to preregister you know, somebody to be able to take your kid off the ship or in and out of the kids club you can actually do that on board and give that authorization right? then and there. As long as you are somebody who's in the stateroom with that child then you can what I mean is if you're in in the stateroom with the child. You can give authorization for somebody who is not in the stateroom with the child to pick up from the kids club or to take off the ship. 38:50.50 Mike and Connie Right? And and they have that password you know that you set up for the kids club as well. 38:50.99 Sam To a foreign port. So it's relatively easy to do yes and you do need to share. Yeah and you do need to share that password with anybody who is going to be picking up. 38:54.41 LeeAnn Okay. 39:04.76 Sam Ah, your kid because if they're there even if they're on the list if they don't know the password they will not be allowed to pick up your kid from the club. So yeah. 39:12.27 dclduo Yes, yeah, what else have we not thought about from the perspective of multi-generational cruising here mike and Connie that you wanted to be sure to share. You know as you think about it. 39:27.50 Mike and Connie Well one of the things that land talked on was since we're platinum. We're making the reservations we do split everything up so that everybody has platinum and that's just for the benefits of being able to book excursions ah book pollo. 39:41.38 Sam The. 39:46.36 Mike and Connie All of that beforehand now when we do that then the same type of deal where you're making all of these changes you can go down to guest services and they'll give you a blank key for the other room so we don't bother. 40:00.22 Sam Um, no, you can't That's smart I hadn't thought about that I was going to say because I know at port at the port right before you board. 40:03.90 Mike and Connie We don't bother to switch who's in what room we just get some extra blank Keys and. 40:15.56 Sam In the check-in process other than for like a Maiden Voyage so Maiden Voyage you cannot do this for because they required at least for the wish they required whoever was you know the primary to you know to be a platinum or ultraplatinum or whatever because of the way they did the booking windows but we. We on a previous cruise um had switched everything around right before we boarded because we had a friend you know in in our room and I was in a different room so that we could get the benefit of their platinum status before we were platinum. 40:49.64 dclduo Um, yeah. 40:50.30 Mike and Connie Yeah I know you can do that. We just don't bother. We just go down and get get an extra key made and they're they're they're happy to do that. 40:52.84 Sam Yeah, yeah, That's very smart. Yeah I didn't even I honestly didn't think about that as a option that's ah ah, probably a smarter option because then you don't have the hassle of having to have them. Switch anything. 41:12.71 Mike and Connie But then you have to. 41:12.75 dclduo Well and you can have. 41:12.79 LeeAnn Well and and we're okay with everybody having access to both of the rooms. That's the other thing because if you did that in your situation then your friend would be able to get into your room. 41:17.58 Sam Right? Yeah I would have been okay with that. But yeah. 41:21.39 dclduo Yeah, and from an onboard account from yeah from an onboard account standpoint to you can set up each individual or on their own payment method. So that's also it doesn't it doesn't tie to the room. It ties the individual now. So that's that's super helpful as well in that kind of situation and I want to say for. 41:33.90 LeeAnn Here. 41:35.14 Sam Um, yeah. 41:40.40 dclduo Yeah, you're mentioning the platinum scenario I want to say for concieurs too. If you have linked reservations. You have some ability to use the connoseurs booking window for the reservations that are linked to your sailing I think in particular around adult dining reservations and shore excursions. So um, it can be. Helpful. Ah, your mileage may vary there but it can be helpful to do that. So correct. Yes, yeah, if yeah, if you're booking None people on None excursion and you're in conciers. They I think will book everybody at the same time. So yeah, yeah, yeah. 42:01.79 Sam Yeah, if they're doing the same excursions there that is if if yeah, they won't. 42:13.38 Sam Right? right? but you can't book an excursion just for the non concierge people through your concierge benefit. They won't do that. 42:22.48 dclduo It and it may and it let me just be clear. It may not work on excursions I know it works on dining because for conscierge you can just say I want to book a reservation for 6 in Palo on x night at x time right? and then they don't necessarily need to know who is going to be with you at that reservation. They just need to know. You want a reservation and here are the None you know and you need None more seats at the table kind of thing. So yeah. 42:45.27 Mike and Connie And I think what leanan alluded to while ago is having parents grandparents with you is and we do this when we go to Disney together and on the cruise is they get a date night. 42:58.29 dclduo Are. 42:58.69 Sam Oh nice. 43:01.67 Mike and Connie So we take care of the kids and they can just have time alone to go check out things and things that they want to do. 43:09.31 Sam Yeah, so you can get Apollo night or a remy night if if you want to do that or just go see a movie like you said Leanne nice. 43:15.77 LeeAnn Or you know my kids have have been on the None cruise that we did they were but 4 and 7 and so they were not quite into staying up late for the shows at that point. Um, so we could go see a show now this next cruise that we do. They're going to be. 43:28.39 Sam Um, this is. 43:35.23 LeeAnn 10 and seven so they're they're all in and gung ho on it. 43:38.40 Sam Well and mike and Connie you guys have seen all the shows so you probably are okay missing a show here and there but right or watching on the Tv exactly. 43:38.90 dclduo And. 43:44.50 Mike and Connie Exactly or is or it's on the Tv. Yeah. 43:44.18 LeeAnn Um, well not on the wedge. 43:51.35 dclduo I've learned from the grandparents. There's no better show than that which can be provided by the grandchild. So yeah. 43:54.20 Mike and Connie Absolutely you know order ordering in that hot chocolate and the chocolate chip cookies when it's time to go to bed you know. 43:55.34 Sam Ah, nice. 44:05.62 Sam Yeah, absolutely So I'm going to ask Maybe what might be seen as a controversial question. But um I love to ask questions like this this. Ah. 44:06.34 dclduo Um, yeah for sure. 44:13.50 dclduo Is a kind of hard hitting approach our show likes to take go forth. Yeah. 44:20.70 Sam So Mike and Connie I'm going to ask you this question none and I'm going to ask a slight variation to Leann. Um, okay, so Mike and Connie what's better being a parent on a cruise at Disney Cruise or being a grandparent on a Disney Cruise and let's not account. Let's not consider. Cruising by yourselves in this mix just parent versus grandparent. 44:42.76 Mike and Connie I will go on any cruise I have a grandchild on. 44:48.79 Sam There you go there. You have a folks he chose grandparents. 44:51.79 dclduo Ah, implicit There is the kids are on their own but I like it. Ah, ah. 44:57.94 Mike and Connie You know the the None time when we wanted to take ah lean's kids on a cruise and she said no we have to go with them the first time. Um. 45:12.17 Sam You want to say you want another grandchild you ah you know our parents neither my parents nor Brian's parents are disney cruisers Brian's parents actually do like to cruise but they like to cruise on celebrity to be fair. They've never. 45:16.27 Mike and Connie I. 45:30.44 Sam Cruise on Disney but they don't like the price tag of Disney. Um, but yeah, but my we took my mom on a Disney Cruise and I will say she she didn't love it. She didn't hate it. She just wasn't really her jam. So yeah, do you want an extra grandchild. Ah, he's really cute. Ah. 45:43.80 Mike and Connie No I think it's the same as it is at Disney World I mean we took our kids when they were little and watched them grow up and it was always fun to see things through their eyes and now. Seeing the grandkids seeing it through their eyes and seeing the excitement when they see something for the none time. It's the same thing on the cruise I and enjoy seeing the crews through their eyes and doing the things with them. You know I've been to tafolding I don't know how many times but. 46:18.81 LeeAnn I Think it. 46:22.25 Mike and Connie When Hannah wanted to go to toolding I was more than happy to go to taelfolding again because she was so excited about it. So I got excited about it. Um, and I've made fluver several times but you know it's it's it's different with each kid and it's fun with each kid. 46:25.50 Sam Yeah. 46:33.25 LeeAnn A. 46:39.23 Sam Yeah, that was a very diplomatic answer Connie but I won't I won't push you for more than that. But I'm going to ask Leah yeah you know what I'm you know what? I'm asking I'm going to ask so I'm going to ask lean is it better to. 46:40.86 Mike and Connie Yeah. 46:45.16 LeeAnn I I 1000% know where I stand in relation to my children. That's fine. 46:57.43 Sam Cruise or more fun to cruise as a parent or as a kid so your question is a little different. 47:04.50 LeeAnn I think I am biased more just because of recency I have cruised obviously more recently as a parent um and cruised on you know the fantasy as opposed to the magic before it was. Redone when it was you know Brand new and before all the cool stuff in the kids Club. So I would say as a parent um you know like my mom said getting to see stuff through their eyes. Even if they don't end up remembering it I have the memories and I'm the one who paid for it. So I get the memories and. 47:32.40 Sam Um, that's right. 47:39.20 LeeAnn Ah, and plus it's also fun for me. It's fun for me to go on a Disney crus or to Disney world and you know I know people who say they won't take their kids because they won't remember it but I will you know I have so many precious memories of when my kids were just over one year old when we went and I know they don't remember it but I do. 47:47.29 Sam Yeah. 47:55.85 Mike and Connie Um, yeah, micah's None haircut needed. 47:56.73 LeeAnn Um, oh yeah, my son got his None haircut at the harmony barber shop and I had just such precious pictures and memories or both of them bouncing around and dancing on. It's a small world and so I know that. 48:02.20 Sam Oh. 48:11.10 LeeAnn Ride drive. So many people crazy, but that's one of my favorites for that reason. So I'll say as a parent. 48:13.31 Sam Yeah,, that's so nice. Nice yeah, and then I think um, you know I'm not going to ask that with kids or without kids because it's such a different experience to cruise you know as sort of a adult whether you're married or single. Than it is with children and I don't want to say there's one that's better or Worse. They're just really different. The experience is yeah yeah, right? And you're not supposed to see that. But. 48:38.82 Mike and Connie They are. 48:40.59 dclduo I Mean the best cruising is adult only cruising. So let's just put that out there. But ah. 48:49.70 Sam You're really not supposed to say that. 48:49.22 dclduo Ah, oh I love I love cruising with I love going to the parks with Nathan it's been so fun now that he's doing thrill rides so like introduce him new roller coasters and stuff and you know that's that's always fun. So I love cruising with our son. But. 48:54.82 LeeAnn Are. 48:59.58 Mike and Connie None of the things that I tell people if they're looking at a Disney vacation is a Disney Cruise is a vacation for everyone. The parents get as much of a vacation as the kids do sometimes you're going to the park you come back. Absolutely exhausted. Because you've done all this planning and you've done all this moving everybody around and making all the pieces fit but when you're on a cruise. The kids can go to the kids club they can go to the kid's pool. They can do all these things and you don't have near the stress involved in it. And then you can go off and have some time on your own and have some downtime. 49:36.81 Sam Yeah, for sure. 49:41.52 dclduo Well, any last thoughts on multigenerational cruising cruising with kids you know your own experience leann as well before we head into the rapid fire round of our show. 50:01.66 Sam Oh we we haven't asked to memory Brian for we haven't asked a ah memory for leann cruising with the kids. Yeah, okay so what 1 thing. 50:09.56 dclduo Okay, we'll go ahead. Ask the question. 50:15.48 Sam We haven't asked. Is you know a favorite Memory. We asked some favorite memories leann for you when you were a kid but we haven't asked a favorite memory I know you I know it's only been two cruises with your kids but I'm sure there's lots of memories that have already been made as as you mentioned you know that's the reason you. Do these things with your kids because they might not remember it but you will But What's ah, a favorite memory from cruising now as a parent. 50:41.73 LeeAnn Ah, our none cruise that we did with the kids we were delayed getting back into port um, and Disney just immediately. Added all these things to the schedule so we went to like a Disney Junior dance party with the Disney Junior characters and I remember we were walking down. Um just a random hallway and all of a sudden the store opened and Aladdin popped out and so then the kids just got to stop and and talk with Aladdin and. Ah, Dizzy did such a great job of filling that time and there was ah a character dance party and so I think we saw more characters that morning than we did the rest of the trip because they were just they were everywhere and so that was one of my favorites was you know he just popped out and got down on their level and started talking to the kids like hey how's going just happen to be here. You know street we're at walking down the the hallway i. 51:30.47 Sam That's awesome. Yeah, we I don't think I've ever seen Aladdin walking around on any of the cruise ships. So that's like ah a I would say a rare character so and you see him on the stage in the aladdin show. 51:44.19 LeeAnn Right. 51:47.60 Sam But not as a face character walking around. That's so cool. 51:50.72 LeeAnn I think they had had pulled in several of those stage performers to kind of fill that that void. 51:57.96 Sam Yeah, and then I'm going to ask Mike and Connie each of you to tell us your your favorite memory ah cruising as a grandparent and it doesn't have to be with lean ann or her kids it could be with any of the kids. 52:14.52 Mike and Connie I think one of my favorite is the one that we had our oldest granddaughter and she was one night she was just really grumpy and we were at animators. And none when they had her orders. She gave her order and it came out and it had broccoli and something else on the side of it and she pointed to it and said I did not order that. 52:38.19 LeeAnn I Thought or that. 52:42.89 Mike and Connie And we told her she didn't have to eat it but she still was in this grumpy mood and so when crush came by to talk to her. She was crying and he was doing his best to get her ah in a better mood. But um, they it. It just didn't go. Oh. But it was very funny that that they tried their best the waiters and crush even behind the scenes everyone was trying to make her have a wonderful cruise and then I think might go tell the None about Hannah. Yes, exactly? Ah what when we were going. On the none cruise with Hannah we had gone to. We've gone to Orlando now we've gone to the airport but we weren't going to Disney world and she was just so upset that we come there and we weren't going to Disney World we're sitting at the terminal and she's pouting. 53:27.70 Sam Is this. 53:36.50 Sam Oh. 53:38.16 LeeAnn Um, and and but. 53:39.55 Mike and Connie And I took a picture over is yeah and just thought you have no idea what's ahead of you. 53:42.88 Sam No I I'm going to guess she was pretty much okay with it. You know a few hours later. Yeah, what they don't know. It's so funny. 53:49.38 Mike and Connie Oh yeah, absolutely. 53:55.90 dclduo Well yeah. 53:57.93 LeeAnn Well now they do and oh my goodness The the last crews that we went on their dad promised them that they could go swimming every day and so he got to take them swimming every day. Yeah, exactly. 54:05.28 Sam Um. 54:08.35 Mike and Connie I. 54:10.41 Sam Ah, right when you make that kind of a promise that's your promise to keep. 54:14.29 Mike and Connie 6 54:15.91 LeeAnn They had macaroni and cheese and a mickey bar every night at dinner. Ah when my daughter was stealing all the cherries out of my cherry coke at dinner. The waiter just brought her a bowl full of cherries for her to snack on I mean they they are so spoiled and they don't know yet that we're going to be in concierge on our next cruise. Um, and so my daughter is the one that I worry about going back after that level of service. She also just. 54:35.47 Sam Ooh watch out. 54:39.87 dclduo Yeah Nathan actually asks Nathan Ashley Nathan actually Askeds us are we sail concierge this do we have access to the concierge lounge. So yeah. 54:40.15 Sam Um, oh yeah. 54:46.94 Sam Yeah, he was. He was a little disappointed but right before we got on the wish he was disappointed to know that we were not sailing concierge. Um, and so he would not have access to you know people who would cut an apple up for him in the middle of the afternoon. Yeah. 54:59.50 LeeAnn And so. 55:04.60 Sam And all the sprite he could drink right there out of a can you know he's just yeah, what a spoil Brett I know listen if you have the shoe fits if the shoe fits you guys. 55:08.29 dclduo Yeah, don't say that about your son. But yeah, oh well I think we have reached that point in the show Sam where we need to do our rapid fire round. So I'm going to hand it over you. 55:15.81 Mike and Connie Yeah. 55:15.81 LeeAnn Someone's going to have to edit that part out. 55:28.29 dclduo So I'm going to hand it over to you to take it away. 55:31.10 Sam That's right all right lean this is our rapid fire round now you know Mike and Connie have already done this so I'm not going to ask them their favorites. But. Basically what I'm going to do is ask you your Disney favorites the none few questions are just going to be general Disney favorites and then after that we're going to talk Disney Cruise line favorites and when you answer these questions keep in mind this is not mom or dad's favorite. This is not. Your kid's favorite. This is not your husband's favorite. These are your personal favorites so there are no wrong answers unless I think you're totally wrong and then I'll tell you so. 56:03.53 dclduo Well we have we have equipped Mike and Connie with buzzers this evening and so if they disagree at the answer. They're just going to slap that down. Yes, yes. 56:08.17 Sam But right and's right all right Lean Ann who is your favorite Disney or Pixar character. Oh that was a quick answer very nice. What is your favorite. 56:17.29 LeeAnn Um, rep pencil. 56:24.26 dclduo You've got to be excited to get on the you've got to be excited to get on the wish then because she's hanging off the back of the ship. 56:25.72 LeeAnn So excited. Yeah, but. 56:27.22 Sam Oh yeah, yeah, but she know she's all over the magic too right? So now she is she wasn't back when you sailed on the magically end so you got yeah so you got to get back on the magic because they got Rapunsil's royal table they've got tangled show. 56:34.20 LeeAnn No I wouldn't know. Yeah, okay oh I've heard such good things about that tingled show too on your show I think yeah. 56:45.26 Sam Yeah, we have not seen it but everyone that we've talked to says it's the best show on the fleet and I'm super excited for it all right? What is your favorite Disney or Pixar movie. 56:57.73 LeeAnn This is such a hard one like it's not even a fair question. Um. 57:00.82 Sam Yeah, you know I ask all the hard hitting questions as Brian said this is like ah these are these are like a None interviews okay and that's there. Ah. 57:09.89 dclduo You know this is this is Rapid fire not Crossfire Sam So just. 57:15.13 LeeAnn While I'm going to cheat and say tangled for Disney and wally for Pixar. Yeah. 57:23.33 Sam That's not cheating. There's no rules. So there you go I love it. What's your favorite Disney song. 57:28.89 LeeAnn Um, ah, that's even less fair kindish. 57:37.26 Mike and Connie You have to consider this as a child who will just break out into song for no reason. 57:41.80 Sam Oh yeah, she you mean she's exactly like me. Oh that's nice. Every moment is an opportunity for another song and show. 57:49.49 Mike and Connie Exactly. 57:55.16 LeeAnn That's really like asking me to pick between my children like this is a person who not only do I have a a Disney playlist on my phone for my children but I have a separate one for me of the songs that I like that. Maybe they don't like so I I cannot. 58:04.71 Sam Um, oh what? what are what what are the what are your what would you say like top 3 like what's on your playlist. 58:10.87 LeeAnn I cannot answer why. 58:19.28 LeeAnn Oh see what's on my playlist that that they don't care for is like Mary Poppins or Pete's dragon yeah okay all right. 58:24.24 Sam Oh. Oh those are some good. Yeah that's some good stuff. Okay I we'll we'll live there then all right now we're going to talk about Disney Cruise line and you can answer based on whatever ship you want. So I'm going to ask you favorite rotational dining. 58:38.27 LeeAnn Okay, and. 58:47.96 Sam So it can be any of the rotational dining restaurant on any ship. 58:55.42 LeeAnn See and I'm automatically thinking Oh my kids really liked this one but now what is my favorite. Ah. 58:58.87 Sam No, not that they're not your kids your favorite right? Good job. 59:07.80 LeeAnn Ah, oh probably animator's palette. 59:13.11 Sam Nice crush or animation magic. Oh nice, all right? What is your favorite bar on board any Disney Cruise line chip. 59:16.64 LeeAnn Crash. 59:27.94 LeeAnn I'm not a drinker so I don't really have an answer for that one? Yes, yes. 59:29.21 Sam All right? Maybe the coffee bar cove cafe there you go. That's a bar all right favorite show stage show on a Disney Cruise that you've seen. 59:43.86 LeeAnn Believe. 59:46.28 Sam Nice favorite onboard activity. 59:58.28 LeeAnn I'm blanking on the name of it midship detective agency and I'm so excited for I'm so excited for the uncharted. Um. 01:00:01.80 Sam Oh yes, Fantastic activity favorite spaced. Yes, it's not up and running yet I warn you so I don't know if when you're sailing on the wish but it's not up and run. Okay, so maybe by then yeah, it'll be. 01:00:15.30 LeeAnn We're going in April so I feel like we have a good chance. Yeah. 01:00:21.49 Sam Yeah, we'll see it'll be like ten months after they or nine months after they you know were supposed to have it released. We'll see um all right favorite space on the ship like favorite space to relax unwind. 01:00:23.41 LeeAnn Um, hopefully yeah, are. 01:00:44.95 LeeAnn Like deck 4 or 5 where you could just go out on the side I love going out there in the evenings and watching the sunset or playing shuffle board. 01:00:49.37 Sam Oh yeah. Yeah, love that Promenade Deck Awesome! All right Favorite savory food item. 01:01:02.25 LeeAnn Macari and cheese still as an adult I will get macarani and cheese like on the side of my meal because there's just something about the Disney Cruise line mac and cheese I don't know what it is yeah. 01:01:11.90 Sam It's pretty good. Yeah, all right favorite sweet item on Disney Cruise 01:01:19.56 LeeAnn Soft serve ice cream. 01:01:21.57 Sam Is very nice all right. My last question is bucket list cruise now this is this can be an imaginary cruise. It doesn't even have to be some place that Disney Cruise line currently goes, but it has to be a real look place in the in the world. 01:01:39.55 dclduo Ah, thanks for that caveat. No Disney resist to Nernia I'm sorry yeah I'm sorry. 01:01:39.56 Sam Ah, so if you could go when I so I said imaginary. Yeah, no yeah, no Disney Cruston Everland exactly no Disney Cruise to you know, fictional places? Listen yeah not allowed at all. 01:01:41.20 LeeAnn Um, it's not Neverland or. 01:01:50.29 dclduo Definitely definitely not 1 to hogwarts at all. That's just not allowed but Disney. Yeah. 01:01:51.60 LeeAnn Um, oh not allowed. Ah. 01:01:56.52 Sam Um, but yeah, so you you want to go on a Disney Cruise line ship to blank place and again it can be any place even in the world even 1 that Disney Cruise line doesn't actually cruise oh very nice, awesome! Well that concludes. 01:02:08.97 LeeAnn Scandinavia. 01:02:14.24 Sam Our rapid fire and congratulations lean you won I don't know what you win but there you go. 01:02:15.60 LeeAnn Um, if that's that's our. 01:02:19.30 dclduo Your prize is a fabulous Disney Cruise at your own expense. Um who well leann Mike Connie so fabulous talking to you this evening and leann you are a travel agent. 01:02:22.74 Mike and Connie Ah. 01:02:35.64 LeeAnn I am. 01:02:37.32 dclduo And so wanted to give you an opportunity to tell folks where they can find you and connect with you if they'd like to book their fat book their next fabulous Disney vacation. 01:02:44.98 LeeAnn Appreciate that. Yeah I am at Mobound vacations with leanann on Facebook so it's http://facebook.com/mousebound leanan that's LEEAAndN and Instagram as well. Mousebound leann. 01:02:59.69 Sam Awesome. 01:02:59.85 dclduo Wonderful. Well thank you again to all of you for coming on. We really, really appreciate it. 01:03:05.98 Mike and Connie Thank you for having us. 01:03:06.25 LeeAnn Thank you so much.