We're back this week with another great crew story to take you back to a better time, a time in which some of us or many of us were on cruises.

And today I have the honor of having on the podcast, Brian Weigel joining us on this episode.

Brian, welcome to the Royal Green Blog podcast.

Thanks for having me.

Been a long time listener

and finally get to talk to you. That's not on Twitter or one of your live Periscope. So it's cool.

Absolutely. A pleasure to have you here. And of course, thank you for checking us out on our social

platforms. Those are fun as well. But as you know, love any opportunity to talk Royal Caribbean.

And today we're talking about, we're going back to 2019 on alert of the seas.

Yeah, you're talking about happier times, you know, starting there.

I only had two kids.

Now I have three.

So definitely, I don't know if some people might take that the wrong way.

But yeah, we as a parent, as a parent, I know exactly what we're going from.

There's some other people who are like, oh my God, what a terrible thing to say.

But no, I know exactly what you mean.

And it's not meant in a terrible way.

You know, I love it, but he's, he's teething.

His fourth tooth is popping out today. So it just made, you know, this podcast recording couldn't

come at a more perfect time. So yeah, we, we did a family cruise in May 2019 on the,

on the allure of the seas. It was, it was kind of a special cruise because my mom had been

fighting breast cancer for, I guess, almost four years. And, you know, her and my father decided, you know, hey, we haven't been able to spend as much time with the grandkids.

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