Mr. & Mrs. Inglis

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All aboard the chaos express! If you’ve got a ticket for this ride, you already know it. It’s the one where there’s never enough time in the day—kids’ schedules outpace yours, work demands keep piling up, and oh yeah, the laundry, dishes, mowing the lawn, and bills aren’t going to handle themselves. Let’s not forget staying connected with friends and family, even though you planned to be in bed by 9 pm…but it’s now 11 pm, and tomorrow starts before the sun does. Sound familiar?

We’re right there with you. Welcome to The Mr. & Mrs. Inglis Podcast, hosted by Shaen and Meghan Inglis—a weekly show where we dive into real and honest conversations about the wild ride of raising kids, growing careers, and managing family and friendships in the middle of life’s beautiful chaos. So, grab your ticket and join us for a weekly dose of camaraderie, connection, and a reminder that you’re never in this alone.

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What is Mr. & Mrs. Inglis?

We’re right there with you. Welcome to The Mr. & Mrs. Inglis Podcast, hosted by Shaen and Meghan Inglis—a weekly show where we dive into real and honest conversations about the wild ride of raising kids, growing careers, and managing family and friendships in the middle of life’s beautiful chaos. So grab your ticket and join us for a weekly dose of camaraderie, connection, and a reminder that you’re never in this alone.

Follow and subscribe to the Mr. & Mrs. Inglis podcast and visit our channel and our website at shaeninglis.com to check out and follow our other podcasts. You can also follow Shaen and Meghan @ShaenInglis on Instagram, YouTube, etc. Feel free to share the Mr. & Mrs. Inglis podcast with someone who would enjoy and benefit from our weekly discussions.

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And if we look like

we're rested and relaxed,

we can move closer.

[Laughter]

You can turn up by definitely.

I think we are more tired.

We are coming back from this vacation

more exhausted than when we left.

Oh, those over there,

those are the little yachts.

Well, or the little yachts.

Yachts.

Where? The guy in

Greece called goat yachts.

Tannys, Mandarin, Yugulayli.

By the way, how uppity did

you decide when you were like,

"Oh, yesterday we were

walking around Florence."

It's probably once in a lifetime that I

get to spend my

birthday on the Amalfi Coast.

So we're hanging out with

George Clooney and Malta.

You know, and Brad Pitt was,

I mean, he was so annoying.

Finally, after like two hours he left.

Anyways, gotta decide.

I mean, Julia Roberts

finally kicked him out.

Matt Damon like invited

everybody. I'm like, "Matt, stop."

I know.

Anyways, we're in Malta.

We're some friends.

We'll just leave it at that.

Stop name dropping.

The Blue Lagoon.

A, way too many people there.

Period.

A couple thousand years.

My grandfather who left from Poland

because he killed

someone with a horse and buggy.

Well, that kid was insane.

We did meet the

world's worst behaved child.

Yeah.

Period.

Korsholm.

Why?

Why am I right here?

Take a left.

I mean, at the very least, am I taking a

left towards the sun?

I'm like a bicycle tire that

we just kept putting air in.

Just like a chanoli. In the form of cannoli.

After chanoli.

After chisela.

Pizza and wine.

Yeah.

Holding a phone ruins my experience.

Ciao ciao.

Welcome to the Mr. and

Mrs. English Podcast.

I'm Megan.

And I'm Sean.

We're here to talk about the wild ride of

raising kids and

growing careers and keeping

life together in the

middle of all the chaos.

So buckle up because we're all in this

crazy journey together.

All right, over again.

You look relatively centered.

Yeah.

All right, this is Mr. and Mrs. 26 maybe?

I think 27 now.

Mr. and Mrs. 26 or 27.

Six seven.

I'm not sure which it is.

Yeah, that's an inside

joke I never really get.

Exactly.

Yeah, a little kid's one.

So this is our second.

Yes.

This is on the cruise ship.

Yes.

And if we look like

we're rested and relaxed.

We're not.

You can move closer.

You can turn up the high depth.

Yeah.

I think we are more tired.

We are coming back from this vacation

more exhausted than when we left.

Oh my gosh.

An incredible vacation.

So worth every step, every calorie and

every lost minute of sleep.

Yeah.

Completely.

Blessed to do it.

Yes.

But oh my gosh.

And the kids, for the

most part, are held up.

Yeah.

The last hour or two as we made our way

back, oftentimes, that's

when our most likely meltdowns

are happening.

Yes.

You know what?

After a day, I mean, this is

like Disney World steps, right?

That we're getting at

most of these locations.

Yeah.

And you have to wait in, like today, it

was an hour long line for

just to get on the tender

to get into the boat.

So I mean, like it is kind of.

Everybody has Disney World steps, right?

So what was our Disney World steps?

Everybody has eye watches.

Everybody knows how much.

How many steps they take.

What was our Disney World?

Oh, our Disney World.

My, I think I was in the 20, like 24,000?

Yeah.

I was thinking 21, 22.

21, 22.

Yeah.

A little 20,000 steps.

Yeah.

And it was an easy day.

Today was the easiest day in Padua.

Yeah.

We still have, you know,

14,000 steps, nine miles.

Yeah.

And it was our shortest port.

Oh, and our shortest port.

So yeah, we were in Cannes and we

actually went up to Antibes and Nice.

And Nice.

So we were in the car quite a bit.

Yeah.

Seeing beautiful sights.

Just the French Riviera.

So.

Yes.

Yeah.

Pretty low key.

You're silly low key.

Yeah.

Well, we saw the non-billionaire way

though, because I think

there's a different way to

see that.

Yes.

If you're a billionaire

in the French Riviera.

Yeah.

It was coming from the yacht side.

Yeah.

In our white Volkswagen bus.

It did.

It wasn't a rounded one, but.

It was not.

It was not like the Volkswagen.

Yeah.

What are those called?

Anyway, yeah, truly the bus, but it

wasn't also the yacht.

Or the huge yacht.

Did you see a morning cereal for when we

were here in Cannes?

I'm doing it.

I'm doing a morning cereal.

Yeah.

Very quickly.

The cans in the background and there's

just huge super yachts right behind us.

I don't know if it shows up yet or not.

I have edited it.

Yeah.

It's hard to miss the super yachts.

Oh my gosh.

There are some incredible ones here.

Yeah.

Well, it was funny because our guide

today was like, oh,

those over there, those are

the little yachts.

Well, or the little yachts.

Yachts.

Yachts is how it came out with her

amazing French accent.

Yeah.

And Megan and I have decided.

We had this before, right?

Yeah.

Part of our plan to retirement was a

little place in Colorado.

We've been skiing and

being with the kids.

Yes.

They love that too.

Yeah.

And we both love Colorado.

Yeah.

But then we spend half time in there and

the good months to be there.

Yeah.

And then the second half on a yacht.

Yeah.

It's a small one.

Not a jacuzzo.

Yeah.

No.

Not the super yachts.

Right.

There were plenty of small yachts.

You can get that.

But she called them yotes.

Yotes.

And so we were just joking.

And of course the yote

life is the life for me.

So yote.

Yeah.

The yote life.

The yote life is the life for me.

Took us a while to figure

out what she was saying.

She's like, yotes.

Oh, there's the yotes over there.

Yotes.

Like, oh.

Because I swear the guy in

Greece called goats yotes.

I think he did.

So we're trying to get

through some of that.

And we keep saying so we've been in quite

a few countries in a couple days.

And so today we kept, you know, the last

couple days we've been in Italy.

Yeah.

And so you're like, oh, you know, someone

asked you something.

You're like, see, see.

And, you know, yes.

Today we kept saying see.

And I'm like, sorry, we, we.

Gracias.

I mean, merci.

Merci.

You know what I'm saying?

Trying to pick up a little bit on it.

You know, some Greece.

Ah.

You know, the more the heller.

Mm-hmm.

Just because it's nice to speak a little

bit of something to the language.

I mean, maybe they

rolled their eyes at it.

But I think most people appreciate the--

Like, we're trying.

Yes.

We're trying.

Like, I'm not just bulldozing my way

through your country.

I'm trying to pick up a little bit of it.

Right.

You clearly know my language.

I should know--

Everybody speaks English.

I feel like I should

know the basics of yours.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

I speak Chinese.

Doesn't come in handy here.

Chinese, Mandarin.

Oh, yeah.

Uh, ukulele.

Ukulele.

You say--

Just try to think--

You and our youngest

apparently speak ukulele.

Yeah. Yeah, they don't know.

It's very northern.

Yeah.

It's a dialect.

Let's not even go into it.

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So, but it's been exhausting.

It's incredible.

Incredible.

All these places that we put eyes on now

that we've just known

since we were children.

I don't know.

Our children, I know

they're young for this.

Yeah.

I think we said on the last one.

I hope that they're appreciating it.

Yeah.

If not, at least kind

of bringing somebody in.

Yeah.

Because it's hard.

I mean, we just grew up thinking about

the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Right.

In books.

It's just always one of those things

that's like somewhere out

there in the world is the

Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Yeah.

We were there yesterday.

Exactly.

We took the pictures holding it up.

I mean, it was incredible to see just

these things with our own eyes.

It really was.

I was trying to explain to one of the

kids because I honestly

got a little emotional

staring up.

So when we were in Florence yesterday,

and I think it was the

Santa Maria, the cathedral.

Yeah.

It was something I had never seen.

I was like, all my years of life, I've

never seen anything like this.

I'm like, I forget that I've walked to

this earth for 46

years and never seen that.

That's a lot longer than you who's 11 and

you've never seen it.

Right.

You know?

Right.

That's what I was saying.

What is it that got you know how wine,

it's crazy as you as you simmer.

There's a little perspective, but yeah,

it's just once you've

known about these things

for so long and there's story, they're

nostalgic, they're

historical, the romance of it.

Yeah.

I mean, it's just

there's so much weight there.

Yeah.

That the young age can't comprehend.

Right.

They haven't had enough life experiences.

Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Oh, I haven't.

I've heard of it once, but there it is.

Yeah.

It's cool.

I've heard of it a million

times and now I'm finally there.

Yeah.

Or whatever it might be.

By the way, how uppity did you just sound

when you're like, oh,

yesterday we were walking

around Florence.

Just totally.

I know we come across uppity sometimes,

but that was a very uppity.

I didn't mean to sound that.

I'm sorry.

This is like the one

week we could do that.

Right.

Well, we know that we're

not on the super yachts.

Yeah.

That's right.

We're just so blessed to have this

vacation and see the

sights that we've seen and see

and get to share it as a family.

Yeah.

And these are

memories we'll have forever.

That has been fine.

And again, for the most part, the kids

have done really well with it.

Yeah.

But you mentioned you're 46

years old and hadn't seen it.

You weren't 46 when we

started this trip though.

No, that's just how

long the trip has been.

I was doing this.

Apparently.

You're ready to move on.

Okay.

Yes.

Yeah.

Happy birthday.

On the ship a few days ago.

Mid-July.

Happy birthday.

Yeah.

It's probably once in a lifetime that I

get to spend my

birthday on the Amalfi Coast.

Again, I know that sounds odd, but I know

that this is a once in

a lifetime and I will

probably never turn a higher number while

at a place so beautiful.

Well, you can turn a higher number.

I'm going to turn a lower number at a

beautiful place probably.

It's true.

And maybe hopefully you can

do it on the Amalfi Coast.

Maybe.

We just mean, I mean,

just, we, happy birthday.

I don't want to skip over that.

It was an incredible boat.

The places that we've seen

have just been incredible.

Yeah.

I mean, every one of them

has exceeded expectations.

I think the last two are probably the

toughest ones, but I just

don't think we had enough

time to do what we really wanted to,

especially today in Cairns.

We wanted to get to Monaco because

there's some great stuff up there.

Yeah.

Every one of them.

Yeah.

Where were we?

The last time we

were, we hadn't seen that.

We hadn't been on the boat yet, right?

With the blue waters.

Oh, we had not been in

Malta, I don't think.

So that was Malta.

I feel like now I'm just self-conscious

of name dropping the places we've been.

So we're hanging out with George Clooney

in Malta, you know, in bad day.

It was, I mean, he was so annoying.

Finally, after like two hours, he left.

But anyways, that aside.

I mean, Julia Roberts

finally kicked him out.

You know they're

super good friends, right?

Yeah, I do.

That's why I put them all together.

That's why they're all there because Matt

Damon like invited everybody.

I'm like, "Matt, stop."

Everybody?

I know.

Anyways, we're in Malta.

There's some friends.

We'll just leave it at that.

Stop name dropping.

We were, yeah.

Actually, I was going to say something

that sounds even more uppity.

Oh, go for it.

And I was like, "Well, actually, we

weren't with friends

because we had our own private

boat tour."

No way, no, no, no.

Where we could see not only Malta, but we

went around two of

the smaller islands that

are right there.

And that was just unbelievable.

It was the closest to Bora Bora.

I mean, that at least blew my mind.

Yeah, yeah.

And if you haven't stopped watching

already because we're just dropping.

When we were in Mykonos, I know we said,

"Hey, first off, hats off to Norwegian.

Great ports."

We mentioned just because I'm the last in

this room, we mentioned just how crucial

that water was.

Yes.

But it was freezing.

Oh, my.

The colors of it were gorgeous.

The pictures don't do that kind of stuff

justice because we've

been one other place that was

like that.

Yeah.

And we mentioned that.

And then fast forward,

you know, four ports.

Yeah, ish, yeah.

Ish.

And then we're in Malta and we took this

boat trip and that

water, especially at the...

What was it?

Was it the Blue Lagoon?

The Blue Lagoon.

Mm-hmm.

Hey, way too many people there.

Put that aside.

Unbelievable watercolors.

Yeah.

I mean, just gorgeous.

Unbelievable.

I mean, it's what I said

about Bora Bora over there.

Yeah. And I know I'm repeating

myself a little bit here.

But you can take Mykonosas at that one

aside because this one

slid in before Mykonos.

Yeah.

I agree.

That blue watercolor is

just so many different.

Still not at Bora Bora.

Bora Bora are just so many.

Just the depths and the

richness of it, right?

Yeah.

And there's a lot of that here.

Electric, slurpy blue.

Yeah.

And warm.

Warmer than Mykonos too.

Yeah.

The difference here is

the history of everything.

I mean, everything is like, well, back in

the first century, you

know, or, you know, in

79 AD and you're just like...

Especially then when they start going BC

and you're still looking at this.

I mean...

Yeah.

And you can see the

original fresco on the ceiling.

I mean, it...

Yeah.

And, you know, that was destroyed.

Over at Olympia, I

mean, you've got the...

What was it on the ground?

The Coles.

Yeah.

Which is however many

thousands of years old.

Yeah.

We all know we don't have that in

America, but it's just

another thing to see it firsthand.

Yeah.

And a lot of these

things we've seen pictures of.

Right.

You know, we've learned

about them in history class.

Yes.

And to just be there.

Yeah.

I mean, some of them, like you're talking

about that church we had yesterday.

Yeah.

It was just breathtaking.

I could just stand there and look at it.

Right.

For hours.

Right.

Hey, there's so much to take in.

Nobody builds stuff like this anymore.

We've never built stuff

like this in the United States.

Right.

And it's funny

because you can just see...

And this is one of the

things we tell our kids.

Like, you can see what

we've taken from our ancestry.

Yes. You know, from here, from here, from

here, you know, Roman

architecture, Greek architecture,

you know, what we're seeing from France.

All these things is

what America's built on.

Yeah.

That's where you get, like, you know,

some of our state

capitals and just some of the

architecture you have

in our state buildings.

And it's really neat to see that because

those are all 200 years

old, if not 100 years old.

Yeah.

You know, here, that was the oldest

freestanding stone, you know, dome...

Dome.

Yeah.

Existing in the world.

Right.

Yeah.

Period.

A couple thousand years.

Right.

That's impressive.

Right.

You can't just...

I don't know.

Yeah.

Right.

The other thing that I find so cool, and

I'll talk about kind

of maybe why I've been

kind of ruminating or thinking about it,

is here, everyone can

trace all their ancestors

back.

You know, like, you know, we had a guide

and she was talking about...

She was like, "Yeah, well, some of my

ancestors came over from

Sicily, you know, but I was

born in..."

You know, wherever she was born.

"...in Tuscany."

But she knew her

lineage all the way back.

And I think for us in

America, we don't really have that.

Right.

Probably because we are that melting pot.

Right.

You know, everyone is a

little bit of all of it.

Yeah.

And it's just a difference.

They take pride in the pureness, if you

will, of like their ancestry.

And our culture is much more you take

pride in the melting pot

effect and the fact that

we've all assimilated and, you know...

We talked about that today with our

driver today, how I was just surprised.

I didn't realize how much...

I don't remember.

Anymore has just been so many facts we

were getting on this.

But like Tuscany was one that's a region

in Italy, one of 11.

I think it was something like that.

But they all take a ton

of pride in that region.

Yes.

And how they trace back

their origins for that.

And they always make

fun of the other ones.

Yeah.

Whatever it might be.

Yeah.

Or even France or wherever it might be.

Greece.

Very prideful of just that.

Not just their country,

but that region in the front.

Yeah.

And to your point we were talking to her

today that we've never

had that in the US because

it's just...

We're always just proud to be American.

Right.

You know, for the most part that...

Right.

But there's no roots to that.

Right.

Not like this.

Help give some perspective.

I don't mean this to sound shallow, but

it's like you wonder

then why the Native American

culture is so strong.

Like they take pride because that's where

they can draw their roots from.

Like me.

Okay, well I know that I had a great

great great grandfather

who left from Poland because

he killed someone with a horse and buggy.

You know, like I know that story kind of.

Yeah.

You know, but I'm Polish, German, Irish,

British, Danish, French.

Like that's a lot.

Yeah.

In fact, we joke.

You know, growing up

I'd be like, "I'm a slut."

Yeah, that's what we

do in America for sure.

Yeah.

Because I can't trace my roots back to

the good old red, white, and blue.

The good old red, white, and blue.

I don't think I've

ever said that in my life.

Yeah, yeah.

It's been interesting getting some of the

very topical, a

little bit of the political

landscape from people who view Americans

these days, you know, abroad and whatnot.

That's been somewhat interesting and it's

been fun, you know,

just talking and sharing

our experiences with

other people, being Americans.

Yeah.

Other people just, it's fascinating.

Like I just love to hear their story and

their experiences and how it's different.

It's fascinating.

Yeah.

You're like, "Do you have any questions?"

I was like, "No, no, no,

you can just keep talking."

I feel bad when she asked that.

"Are there any questions?"

No, I'm just here to sit and listen,

educate, spoon feed me

whatever you want to.

Yes.

That's what everybody else did.

Yeah.

Don't put that pressure on me.

I don't know what to ask.

It's funny, every one of our guides, so

all the ports we

stopped in, I think out of 10,

eight of them were private.

Yeah.

So it was just us, our driver, and our

van with our family.

Yeah.

And then there was two,

maybe it was seven out of two.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The other ones we were

sharing with other people.

Yeah.

Which, thank God we didn't

do that every time because...

We wouldn't have lasted.

The OP on other people, on cruises,

enemies, even smaller, I

mean like, just unbelievable.

MIP's everywhere.

You know what we talk about, MIP's.

Most important people.

Oh my gosh, they were everywhere.

Yeah.

Crazy.

Yeah.

I was, you know, somewhat a little bit

proud because our kids

knew that whatever that most

important person was doing was wrong.

They were like, "Who gave them the...

Why would they do that?"

And you're like, "I don't

know, just keep walking."

That kid was insane.

Anyways, we don't need to drop any more

about that kid, but we...

We did meet the

world's worst behaved child.

Yeah.

Period.

Yeah.

Period.

Like...

With parents that did nothing about it.

Right.

Like, literally at Pompeii,

he's going under the ropes.

Yes.

And then like dancing.

And dancing on the things that they don't

want you on because

there's a rope up there.

And his parents did nothing.

Like, if he were broken

one of those things...

They laughed, actually.

They laughed at it.

Yeah, they laughed.

Yeah, long story there.

And that, because there are very few

restaurants that can Pompeii.

So Pompeii may not be a

shared experience with our family.

Not?

We all have different experiences.

The one...

Pompeii.

Yeah, one site location that we have

slightly different experiences at.

Yeah.

Yes.

Pompeii is a little

bit like a rat's nest.

It was a maze.

A maze, like a crossword.

A rat's maze.

It was...

I was so...

Yeah.

And because of this kid, we were behind.

Yeah.

The whole group.

So we were trying to get in fast.

The whole ticket thing was an issue

because this is the first...

This is our second one

that we had with other people.

Right.

And there was only...

Well, that was a full

bus to other people.

That was big.

Anyways.

So we're waiting on all these people to

get their act together.

And this kid.

And his parents.

Anyways.

So we didn't have time

because we're outside.

We don't have time to go in.

Toilets here are ridiculous because

everybody knows you don't

know you have to pay for

a toilet here.

It's 50...

It's half a euro.

Yeah.

Whatever that is.

50 cents to a euro.

Yeah.

So have your...

Toilet uses a public restroom.

No matter where you are.

Unless you're in somewhere in your dining

restaurant and you buy something there.

Then it lets you use a

toilet or the watercolor.

Classic.

Which is one of the reasons why we've

overeaten on this trip.

Yeah.

That's the next subject.

Over-eaten.

Way too much.

You might not

recognize me but I'm showing.

Yeah.

Hi Megan.

We're just going to be

rolling us off the ship tomorrow.

That looks more like a...

Yeah.

Like any of those pastries I probably

more like a croissant.

Croissant.

Croissant haul.

Anyways long story short.

We were 200 yards into Pompeii and I'm

like I gotta go to the restaurant.

There's no way I'm going to make it.

And I'm of a certain age that sometimes

when that hits you just gotta go.

You gotta find it.

You gotta go.

And we're in literally ruins.

But I don't really like it.

We had just got into it.

I don't realize how big it was.

And I'm like oh there's a sign.

So I went this way.

Knowing that we were heading one way.

So I was like maybe I can head a moth if

there's one up there towards the edge.

But the edge was forever away.

And they start having signs every now and

again that say toilets this way.

So it took me like half a mile that way

then half a mile this way.

And then a mile back to the very

beginning where I came in.

Where I could have just turned around and

gone back to that one

like 300 yards at the

very first time.

So I did that.

Yeah.

And I was like the whole time thinking

I'm not gonna make it.

But I had an empty can.

I had an empty bottle.

I'm like I'm gonna have to use it.

I'm gonna have to use it.

Everybody knows.

Anyways.

So I made it.

Thank God.

I even waited to make sure.

You know like.

And going on a road trip.

Like do I need to try just to make sure.

Yeah.

TMI.

TMI right here.

That's what every parent

says to their children right?

Before a road trip. Just try. My first turn I'm like I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. Before a road trip.

Just try.

My first turn I'm like I'll find it.

I'm like don't worry about it.

Because we had ear

things in and it was radio.

So I was like I could hear it come in and

out when I was close to him.

I was like if I was within a hundred feet

of him I could hear

the radio coming in and

out.

First turn I was good.

Second turn I'm like oh man.

Third turn where I'm like a

mile in the other direction.

I'm like there's a real good

chance I'm not gonna find it.

Yeah.

And there's zero.

I haven't uploaded.

Maybe everybody's okay with it.

I haven't uploaded any videos.

I got so many great videos of these

things not just pictures

of some of these places

we've been.

There's internet's terrible.

Wi-Fi's not existent to horrible.

Horrible to non existent.

Even that I paid for.

A lot of paid for.

Yeah.

A lot of the Christian.

Worthless.

It won't download

pictures that we get on texts.

Anyways.

So I can't text Megan.

Nope.

Can't call Megan.

Nope.

So I'm walking around

Pompeii for an hour.

Maybe.

Yeah.

I'm not walking.

I'm running.

You're running.

You're cobblestone streets that are.

Every stone is like a broken angle.

Yes.

Well it's.

Just a potential broken angle.

2,500 years old.

So yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

It's not smooth paved roads.

And then I have three to strike kids.

Like where's dad.

We're never gonna find him.

And I'm like trying to text you once.

By the time you've got it.

I mean it was already by the time it

actually sent it was

easily 10 minutes later.

And I was like well we're not in that

square anymore I promise.

Yeah.

Because at one point in

time your fine mind came up.

Oh yeah.

So I went to that and I was overlooking

the entrance to where

she was 20 minutes ago.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Or maybe an hour.

30 minutes ago at that point in time.

Yeah.

Let's go short.

I found him.

Yeah.

So it was a happy ending.

Almost as we went out into the museum.

It was funny because Megan's

like oh we just left a square.

Well there's like 100

squares up on the way.

She's like we just left a square.

Take a left.

You know.

And I was in a whole other.

Square.

And I'm like A. I mean everybody knows

what I'm gonna say right now.

You know husbands

know what I'm gonna say.

Take a left.

I mean at the very least am I taking a

left towards the sun?

Do you have any direction to give me?

I mean who knows what

way I came in there.

Take a left.

For the record the square I was talking

about only had one entrance in.

You couldn't come.

So you could take a left.

Yes.

You could only go two ways.

Fair enough.

That was one of our biggest, wasn't a

disaster but probably a

biggest disaster in one of

our most annoying

days because of that kid.

Because.

Yeah.

Like the whole 50 people on

the bus or 80 people on the bus.

I mean just I can't believe somebody

didn't say something.

Well someone did.

Remember on the bus when he was shouting

give me trash, give me trash.

I tell you the craziest

thing we've ever seen.

And someone did was like shh.

And he didn't of course.

Oh someone shushed him though.

Someone shushed him.

Oh anyways everybody's trying to be nice

if they can but there's

been plenty of instances

where people were not in the long run.

Always I don't want to say negative

things on that one but food.

Yes.

Ok.

Incredible.

It's everything they

said it would be honestly.

Yes.

I mean everywhere we've

gone we've got the cannoli.

Yeah.

In.

Sicily.

In Sicily.

You know we've got wine in Italy.

We've got pizza in Italy.

What were you supposed to eat?

Pizza and Naples.

Which is where that came from.

Today we obviously had the chocolate

croissants and brands.

But yes we have eaten more because we're

like hey we need to go in

here to use the restroom

so we may as well buy something rather

than just paint and use the restroom.

Not mine as well.

Yeah we have to buy something.

We have to buy something.

Because they won't let you.

Right.

It's not like in the US there's public

restrooms everywhere.

And in spots that makes sense right?

To me at least.

Yeah.

It makes sense that at a beach you have a

big sign that says restroom.

Yeah.

Here there's no I mean it all says toilet

but I mean it was this big.

I mean you can't find it.

I mean they're hard to find.

Yeah.

I mean I remember that the

first time I went to France.

Yeah.

That's where I got fined.

But I was frustrated that then it was

like 10 probably a pound

or 10 cents of a pound.

Yeah.

So anyways but that's been that's so yeah

we've gone in because

we have to use the water

toilets.

So we bought something for that.

We've had a lot of gelato.

It's been the easiest ones gelato.

Today was the only day

we didn't need gelato.

No I'm surprised the

kids didn't bring it up too.

Because we're all like oh

yeah one last gelato door.

Yeah.

That might have made them wait to get

back on the tender a

little bit better if we had

to get back on the tender.

Yeah it was a tough time.

Tough.

Tender.

I mean it was the

gelato here is incredible.

Yeah but the pizza really

I mean it was really good.

I mean we only got the cheese mozzarella.

The margarita pizza.

Margarita butter.

Oh my gosh.

I mean maybe we made it.

I mean the food was great.

The drink was great but I mean everywhere

we ate and I know it

was very touristy but

like every place we went Athens the

acropolis was break down.

Yes as we ate Europe.

So I mean we got the best.

Like we had breakfast

right next to the colosseum.

Yes.

If you left the places the very first

place you could eat I

know it's super touristy

and maybe the food was

terrible I don't know.

But it was not.

But for me as a tourist food was great.

Right.

And where we sat to eat was like

yesterday in Naples.

Oh yeah.

Yeah that square we were in.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

Incredible.

I mean it was.

I mean I just can't.

It's beyond words.

I'm a little speechless which is normal

but maybe not normal

when I'm on the podcast.

Exactly.

But that's been part of

why it was just incredible.

That's been incredible.

So we've eaten.

We've wanted to make sure we explore

local cuisines and foods

and drinks when we're on

wherever we're at in Port.

But when you're here and you're paid for

the packages on the cruise.

You also eat.

It's like everything's a three meal.

I mean I can't believe our oldest he

finally figured out

because he's always struggled

to eat.

He's eaten eight times

his weight on a daily basis.

Yes.

Incredible amount of food.

Yeah he has.

Which he's going to grow a ton.

Yes because he has done a lot.

We've all walked a lot.

We haven't done a ton.

Yeah.

You know.

Yeah.

He's going to shoot up I

think after all these galleries.

But I mean I did not get in the shape I

wanted to get into before we came here.

I feel a little bit fat dad Sean.

For what I want to be.

I just didn't get there this time.

But I'll tell you by

the end of this cruise.

I'm not even close.

I'm just like.

I'm farther away from the call.

I'm like a bicycle tire that

we just kept putting air in.

Just like.

In the form of cannoli.

After chalet.

Pizza and wine.

Yeah.

I haven't regretted a

single calorie though.

Go back to the Brazilian steakhouse

tonight on board which is really good.

Incredible.

Last night on the cruise.

Yeah.

That's good.

Yeah.

Which I would say.

To wrap this up just a little bit here.

This has been.

I mean it's been a.

This is the longest

vacation we've ever taken.

Yes.

We've been in here for two weeks almost.

And it's been perfect because.

I think we're ready.

To head home.

Yeah.

I mean I don't know if

we had three more ports.

I'd say I'd be okay with it.

I could probably mentally get there.

But knowing that we don't.

Yeah.

I'm okay with it.

Yeah.

And it wasn't one of these

where I counted down like.

Oh my god we have three.

Yeah.

Three days.

Two days.

Yeah.

I've done that on vacation.

I don't want to do it.

I'm like mentally.

I'm trying to block out my countdown.

Yeah.

I do.

I really till tonight where it's like you

know what we got to start packing up.

Yeah.

And I'm okay with it

because it was fantastic.

Yeah it was.

Like I don't think it

could have been more perfect.

The memories with our kids.

You know I did have someone tell us that

hey when you're there

don't take too many pictures.

Take all your pictures.

Mm hmm.

And then just enjoy it.

Yeah.

And I came here with that intention.

Mm hmm.

But I didn't do that at all.

Yeah.

But I videoed a lot of stuff.

Yeah.

And I just kind of

walked around the video.

Yeah.

And I commentated on some of it just for

our own records you know like in a while.

Like where were we on this one.

Yeah.

You know.

And I don't feel like I overdid it.

Like I don't feel like

I didn't see anything.

Right. Because most of the time I just kind of

walked around this way

and I would snap a picture

of what.

During the video.

Right.

And I was like I don't know what I was going to do with this and stuff but did I overdo

that do you think?

No I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I think part of it for you because we

think and remember things so differently.

Yeah.

For me stopping to take a picture takes

me out of that moment

and I'm less likely to

remember it.

Oh really?

Than if I were just immersed

in it and taking it all in.

Well I feel like you won't

remember any of this thing.

I took a lot of pictures.

Well you did.

I did.

I mean I did but you know what I did.

I tried not to stop people.

I had a lot of just non-posed.

Yeah.

Pictures and videos of every this walk.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Took a lot of selfies but I mean

everything was really good about it.

I hope I didn't take you out on that one.

No.

And they really had points that we were

stopping for always.

They were always at

points that we were stopping.

Yeah.

But I think because you don't remember

the same way I do like I

have those memories that

are like movies in my head.

For you you need those

pictures for the recall.

Yeah.

And so it's it is a little different.

I know you were like what do you mean?

Like carrying a camera like takes away

the experience and it's

because like it does it

it stops my train of thought and that

immersion that immersion.

Yeah.

That was close to the quote of the day.

We've been trying to call it the quote of

the day for someone like

one of Megan's yesterday

because I'm not Megan I joke you know on

this if you've ever watched this show.

I'm the picture taker.

I'm trying to get Megan and she's getting

better at taking pictures

but like we'll be on vacations.

It's like oh where's where was Shawn.

Was Shawn on the vacation?

Yeah.

There's no pictures that existed me.

I was there but I took them all.

Right.

So it's like I'm

trying to get Megan back.

Hey will you just mind just providing a

little proof that I was

here and you've done better

this time.

I've done it.

I've done it everyone.

But yesterday your quote was I was like

because you keep trying

to put your phone in that

little thing.

It doesn't fit in there.

I'm like just hold it so that you can

just when you see a

good picture of me and the

kids or something you can just pop it and

you're like maybe it

was a tough day because

that was that was the other

M.I.P. lady was yesterday.

Oh yeah.

From Chile today.

Chile. And in your quote was your quote of the

day was like holding a

phone ruins my experience.

Like holding a phone in

your hand ruins the experience.

I've been holding a

phone the entire time.

Yeah.

Not taking pictures just holding it.

Yeah.

So that was funny.

We've had some pretty

funny quotes that they made.

Oh my gosh.

Have not made it.

Haven't made it yet.

But you'll see them on Instagram.

Like some of them.

We've only done some of them but we've

had a lot of them which are funny.

There's been one every day.

There's been at least one every day.

Hence quote of the day.

Quote of the day.

Yeah.

That's right.

We should wrap it up.

Yeah.

But so this is our last

one from the Mediterranean.

From the Mediterranean.

Yeah.

We'll be back in our boring studio.

Now we know how to do it mobile though so

maybe we'll ask some

other fun locations now.

We kind of know how to do it mobile.

Exactly.

It's kind of fun.

It is.

It gets us out and about.

But we'll be signing off

from the Mediterranean here.

Yeah.

France is just that way off to the left.

Stage left.

Rome is that way.

Yeah.

It's interesting because the way the

geography went I thought we

were going to be going north.

Yeah.

Up to Cairns.

Up to the East Side.

But it was like straight across because

it was almost like the Gulf of Mexico.

Yeah.

It's like Florida over to Texas.

Yeah.

It's like just taking a

bit of a straight shot.

Straight across the Gulf.

Yeah.

So now we're going back but we're going a

little bit more south.

A little south.

Yeah.

Good to know the geography more here too.

Yeah.

With the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea.

You know where all these seas are now.

I mean for me, you love maps.

But for me it was just kind of cool.

Once I'm in it, it's much

easier for me to go learn it.

Yeah.

Well we know that the

Aegean Sea is freezing cold.

Yeah.

Whereas the Ionian is a lot warmer.

It's warmer.

Yeah.

And they're both part

of the Mediterranean.

And they're both part

of the Mediterranean.

So there you go.

The more you know.

All right.

Well hopefully wherever you guys are at

has been fantastic too.

I know everybody else has

probably taken their vacations.

I saw a couple of people

that are regular watchers.

They were down in Destin in Florida.

We saw that.

It looked like a fun time for you guys.

A couple of other ones too.

Oh that's awesome.

But outside of that,

we're going to sign off.

We're going to be in

an airplane in 12 hours.

Yeah.

All right.

Well we'll see you back in the studio.

And ciao ciao.

Ciao ciao.

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