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Angela and her family just returned from a seven-night cruise on Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas. It was over in the Mediterranean from Rome to Athens, and it was her very first cruise ever. A heck of a first cruise to do. How you doing, Angela? I'm doing great, Doug. Thanks for having me. Yeah, great to have you. We're such big fans of yours. Thank you so much. It's very sweet. Let's let's take a step back here and get some pre-cruised thoughts before we head over there to Europe. So what made you want to do this seven-nighter in the med as your very first cruise? Because normally, like, you work up to that kind of status.

Yeah. So we were celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary, and my husband and I always wanted to get on a cruise.

So we started looking around, and once I realized that you could cruise to Italy, I just had my heart set on that.

So we decided that we were going to do a Mediterranean

itinerary. And we found this Voyager sailing that did not only started in Rome, but made a couple of

stops in Italy and then also Greece and Turkey. So you packed up the family, you hopped on a plane and went over

to Rome. Any pre-cruced time before you boarded? Yeah, we did. We definitely wanted to spend a little

bit of time exploring some of Rome before we got on the ship. So we flew out on, let's see, it was a

Thursday and did a red eye from, we flew out on, let's see, it was a Thursday and did a red eye from, we flew Omaha to Atlanta,

Atlanta to Rome, and did a red eye between Atlanta and Rome and got there and spent Friday,

Saturday, Sunday in Rome before getting on Voyager on Monday.

You said your husband was a military, Brett. Was this your very first time going to Europe? Yes, it was my very first time.

And we brought all four of our kiddos. And my parents decided about maybe a third of the way

through all of the planning that we were doing that it sounded like a lot of

fun and they decided that they wanted to come too. So all eight of us trekked all the way over to

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