Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a week of look into the world of Royal Caribbean

Cruising. I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 349.

This week's cruise story is about honoring parents.

John decided to recreate a family short excursion that became legendary in his home and in the process

cemented his love of cruising.

Here we go.

We're back this week with another Royal Caribbean Cruise story.

Of course, we're kind of looking back at some better times here and remembering some great stories from our listeners about past cruises that have really stood out to them for one reason or another.

And I am so happy to bring on board for our second installment of this,

Mr. John Bamber from casual movieclub.com.

I know John for many years.

We've cruised together, we've hung out together, we've drank together, we've Facebooked together,

and, you know, when John approached me with his story, I saw the first couple sentences of it, I was like, perfect, because this is great.

And I think, John, this is going to be a great example, a shining example of, you know, a great microcosm of why we cruise.

And John, why don't you, where should we start with this story?

Well, first of all, thanks so much for having me on again, because you know I relish every moment I can to hijack your podcasts or, or live streams as I've done on our group cruises.

So thank you for, thanks for having me on.

Absolutely, sir.

So, yeah, so this, this is kind of interesting because it's a, it is a story that took place many moons ago when I was but a teenager

Which was too long ago, but basically it was one of my first cruises that I'd been on and we were I was with my mother and my grandmother and we were on

We were on the heart it was either the horizon or the zenith, which was an old celebrity ship.

They were sister ships, so they were nearly identical anyway, but I think it, I want to say it was the zenith, but I could be wrong.

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