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Mark and Rocky just returned from a 9-night cruise aboard MSE, Merivia. It was out of New York City going down to the Bahamas, Florida area, and in the Yacht Club. They join us on the line right now. Hey, guys, how are you? Hey, good. How are you doing, Doug? I'm excited to talk about this because we haven't had an MSC Yacht Club experience in a long time. And we've had the ones that were like three-nighters and were really fast, but I'm excited to hear what it's like spending some extended time beyond seven nights over in that yacht club. So what we'll do here before we get started? We'll get some pre-cruised thoughts from y'all. What made you, you're in the Phoenix area, what made you want to take this nine-nighter out of New York City?

Honestly, it was just the idea of getting to check out a new cruise line. We've been looking at

MSE for a long time. And the idea that sailing out of New York in the heart of January, when it is

very cold outside, the pricing was actually very lucrative to get ourselves

onto that ship, as well as to fly across the country to New York. So all the stars aligned

and just made it worthwhile for us. Now, there were some, a little bit of weather going through the

country. About the time when y'all boarded, it might have missed you by a day or two. Did that

impact your flights at all going into Manhattan?

It did not impact the flights at all.

It did impact sail away a bit.

As you can imagine, the storms, it was quite rocky on the seas.

In fact, it was really cool because it was the first time ever.

So we've been to Alaska several times, but it was the first time ever we've actually seen snow on a cruise ship.

And so to see the crew, it was the first time many of the crew had seen snow on a cruise ship.

And they were out running out, TikToking and taking selfies.

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