[Music]
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.