Welcome to the Royal Crime and Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 367.

If you're a Royal Caribbean cruise that counter as a hurricane, that probably sounds like a really bad vacation.

But this week's cruise story is about how that exact scenario turned out to be a really fun and memorable cruise.

Pascal shares with us her experience sailing or at Hurricane Ivan

actually ended up making for a great Canada and New England cruise. Here we go.

We're back this week with a cruise story. Don't worry. Don't worry. There's not going to be a 60-minute

monologue. It's not a monologue. I don't know what it is when two people talk, but a dialogue.

Like last week, we're going to be able to get back to your cruise stories.

And this week, we're talking with a good friend of mine, actually, Pascal Smith,

who went on a cruise on Jewel of the Seas in the fall of 2004.

That's right, folks.

Let's see.

I'm trying to think what music was popular in 2004, but break out that,

the, all the, whatever memories you have at 2004. I'm really struggling with something that to me

speaks to 2004, but whatever it is, think about it. And we're going to go back there with our friend

Pascal. Welcome to the podcast, Pascal. Thanks, Matt. Thanks for inviting me to the podcast to talk about one of my most memorable cruises.

Absolutely.

And I want to start off, Pascal, first of all, with a hearty thank you.

Because for our listeners, you probably don't know, Pascal is actually one of our awesome,

awesome moderators on the Royal Cream blog message boards.

And to say that she makes everybody's life, including mine, a whole lot easier, is an

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