But yeah, I'm curious to know who, like, who actually booked last minute.

There was somebody in our group, I think, who booked about seven days out.

Welcome back, everybody, to this week's bonus episode of the DCL Duo podcast brought to you by my path unwinding travel.

And it is just me this evening. Sam is battling a little bit of bronchitis in our household.

So I'm hoping that she is well enough to record again soon.

But today it will just be me solo.

But that's okay.

Because I am joined by fabulous guests, Leslie. So let me start by welcoming Leslie to our show. Welcome, Leslie. Thank you so much for having me. So for those of you not in the know, Leslie is the brains behind Trips with Tykes, a wonderful travel blog that Sam and I actually read from time to time and enjoy. We got a chance to meet Leslie live and in person. I think it was at Alani. And did we also meet up at Disneyland at one point? Both. We ran into each other spontaneously at Alani. You realized we overlap for a day and I came and said hi at your cabana. And then we ended up at Disneyland for, I forget what it was, but there was some opening or something, some

reason I was there for media. Was it Star Wars opening week? No, it was. Or Mickey and Minis?

Maybe it was Mickey and Minis. Yeah. Yeah. So yes. And then you too have a podcast along with

your co-host Joe, Disney Decipher, which is a favorite of ours as well. So excited to have you on today.

And we're going to be putting our running shoes on, I guess, because we've got to move fast because

we're booking a last minute cruiser. We're pros and cons of booking a last minute Disney Cruise Line

Cruise, which you did recently. Before we dive into the topic, though, Leslie, we always love to

ask folks what their Disney background is. Yours is extensive. So maybe I'll the topic, though, Leslie, we always love to ask folks what their

Disney background is. Yours is extensive. So maybe I'll just ask, what's your background with

Disney Cruise line? Very little. I have a lot more background with Disneyland and Disney World

and Al-Lani, but we have only taken one Disney Cruise before our most recent one. It was in 2017. It was actually

just me and the two kids at the time with my aunt along to help. Three night, crazy, you know,

just castaway key and back, you know, way too fast, especially with a toddler. And we've been

wanting to do one for years, but COVID intervened. We actually had a booking initially for the summer of 2020 to Alaska that was not to be. So we kept rescheduling and rescheduling and booking different kinds of cruises. And then one of us caught COVID and we had to cancel one. I mean, it was just a comedy of errors. We have so many cruises that we canceled. But finally, we made one happen for spring break of 2023.

Nice.

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