You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged Podcast. We're joined today in our virtual studio by Carnival Cruise Line cruise director, Lee Mason, to talk about the cruise restart, Lee's career, and of course, some fun facts about Lee and Carnival Cruise Line. And it wouldn't be the CruiseTips TV Unplugged

podcast without some cruise tips. So let's go say hello to Lee.

Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. I'm your host, Sherry, and we invite you to join our cruise-loving family as we travel

the world creating cruise videos and vlogs. In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics, and strategies

to help you make every cruise your dream cruise. Lee, welcome to the Cruise Tips TV studio. How you doing?

I'm absolutely amazing, Sherry. Thank you so much for having me back.

Well, it's wonderful to see you again. Last time we saw you, we were on Carnival Panorama in

December, and we had our wonderful chat about holiday cruises. Everyone was fully masked up and observing all of this,

you know, the safe social distancing and all of that. And you were handing over the reins to the new

cruise director, Christian, to head home. So a lot has happened in the last two months. How is

everything going for you in England? How's the

vacation? How's the family? Well, it's been great. It's been everything that I've needed it to be.

I've done very little. I've slept a lot. I've seen my mom and my nana and caught up with some lifelong friends that it doesn't matter how long I go away for, we just pick up the way we left off. So it's been brilliant. The only thing that I haven't been able to do this vacation was get off to Texas to go and see my girlfriend on the carnival breeze,

unfortunately. Oh no. Shoot. Yeah. So she's on board. And so if you were to go see her,

you would see her on like a turnaround day? Well, the plan originally was to go and cruise on the

breeze with her. But in the face of all of the protocols and certain restrictions on,

you know, crew being in guest area, and the risk, I suppose, of me coming in from outside the

country and seeing her for extended periods of time, it compromises a lot of things,

the integrity of the entertainment.

So unfortunately, that was one of the things

that I wasn't able to do that I was hoping to do.

But aside from that, it's been a wonderful vacation,

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