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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 358.

Going on a cruise means you can vacation any way you see fit.

Some like to take it easy and sleep in, some like to burn the candles at both ends,

and that's a lot of counting for so many other cruise styles.

This week, Donna shares how she and her family decided to try a Family Olympics

competition on board Radiance of the Seas. Here we go. We're back with this week's

cruise story, and this time we're heading up to the last frontier i think that's the marketing

slogan they use in alaska as we talk about a cruise to alaska and this is a fun one i don't

want to spoil any of this but i do want to spoil it by at least introducing our guest this week

it is dana from virginia welcome to the real green blog podcast, Donna. Hi. Yeah, great to be here. Thanks for

having me. Absolutely. I am excited because not only were we talking about what has quickly

become my favorite place to go to on a cruise, but also something, the Jenko Family Olympics,

just that sometimes I get these cruise stories and like last

week's was Bro Cruise. And this week we got the Jenko Family Olympics. I love it. So tell me about

what, tell me your cruise story, Donna. Yeah. So, well, to start out, I was cruising with five people who've never been on a cruise before.

So that alone made everything really interesting.

I had been on, I don't know, five or six before them.

And so my husband, our two grown sons and my brother-in-law and his wife, my husband's brother.

And to say the least, I was going with at least three very skeptical people about cruising and two young men who were

super excited to have a free vacation and a drink package. So there so, so there was, there was definitely a lot of prep.

And, and we looked at things, you know, short excursions and the usuals.

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