Sam, one last question. For you and you only, I've been hyping up to our audience a little bit of a surprise on board the sailing for you. Have you sussed it out? Do you have a guess as to what the surprise could be on board?

I have a guess, but I don't want to reveal it. Welcome back, everybody, this week's bonus edition of the DCL Duo podcast.

And back by Popular Demand is a pre-trip planning show.

So we leave in, what, three days, Sam. Is that right?

Yep, three days. Three days for the big easy New Orleans to get on the wonder at the end of the week on Friday. So we are leaving on Wednesday so that we can spend today helping Nathan transition over to Grandma and Grandpa before we take our adults cruise

on The Wonder out of New Orleans.

So we're pretty excited about that.

We are awash and packing right now.

I am a little further along than Sam, but I've been spending probably every other weekend

packing and repacking and slimming down our podcasting gear and video gear that we're taking

with us in a rather large and heavy gear that we're taking with us in a

rather large and heavy backpack that's sitting on a table in front of me while I'm waiting

for one more battery to finish charging. And Sam has been packing all day herself. Sam,

what are you most looking forward to about maybe, let's start with pre-cruise. Pre-cruise,

what are you most looking forward to doing maybe that Thursday that we have in New Orleans?

Ooh, this is a tough one. I just love walking around the French Quarter, but I'm looking

forward to some kind of frozen beverage that I can get somewhere on Bourbon Street. So he was looking for a daquery stand. And I will be looking for a po-boy. But I agree with Sam on that Thursday. It's going to be nice just to maybe wander down Royal Street. If you listen to our last show, we love to wander down Royal and look in the shops and the art galleries and such. And I'm really looking forward to Nathan getting to spend some time with grandma and grandpa

because he hasn't been able to do that in a while. Or I should say, Mimi and Pop-Up, because that's what they prefer to be called. So looking forward to that. What are you looking forward to most on our cruise? Give me your top three. Top three things you're looking forward to on our cruise. Ooh, this is really hard because there's so much to look forward to.

I'm going to... three, top three things you're looking forward to on our cruise. Ooh, this is really hard because there's so much to look forward to.

I'm going to start with hanging out in the adults only pool area.

Okay.

You don't need my affirmation.

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