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Mayor and his family just did a 21.

I say just did.

It was actually like over the summertime.

I just now got around to airing this.

It's been a hectic year.

What do you want me to say?

I apologize for sitting on it that long.

But a 21 day cruise on Carnival Pride over the summer,

the Baltics and Norway. How you doing, my friend? Hey, Doug. I'm doing great. Give me some pre-cruise

thoughts because you're out in Texas and you had to make your way over to the UK area. And you

were there for a long time, like 30 days with Post and Pre and the cruise itself.

What made you want to do a trip this big?

Yeah, so just to kind of pick a step back, we're a cruising family of four.

We've done a fair number of Korean cruises, close to 20 sailings, Western, Eastern, Southern.

But while we love it there, we wanted to do a European cruise.

First, actually, we booked the Iceland and British Isles first,

the 12 days, and then just looking at, just figuring that since we'll be flying all the way

from the States, why not just add the Norway crew before it since we've never been there,

making it back to back. And honestly, really glad that we did.

You said you were a cruising family. How old are your kids? Have a seven-year-olds and a 14-year-old. Gotcha. And we've always cruise together. Gotcha. Very cool. So you make your way from Texas over across the ditch to the UK. Any pre-cruise time? Yes. So we flew into London Heathrow about a week before the cruise.

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