Welcome to the Royal Hermine Blog podcast, a week of look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 350.

Sometimes you'll go on a cruise and something happens during the cruise that becomes an instant family memory.

The kind of incident that immediately brings a smile to your face as you begin retelling it,

and this week's crew story is all about Paul's Day in St. Thomas on Freedom of the Seas, where a bad back turned into a really good day.

Here we go.

Continuing our cruise stories this week is an absolute favorite of mine. This story is something I had heard from friends, mutual friends,

I should say, but I've never actually heard it from the horse's mouth. And I got to say,

this is a great one. I don't want to pump this up too much. But joining me on this week's

episode is Paul Crow. Welcome to the show, Paul. Hi, how's it going, Matt?

Outstanding.

Glad to have you here, Paul.

It's, I can't believe I've done you for so long.

And this, I think, is your first time on the podcast.

Probably is.

Wow.

Well, first time for everything.

But I'm going to say that this story, I heard this story

on a now defunct Royal Caribbean podcast, the Crowncast podcast.

And this story is something, Paul, that every time we go to this particular island

that we're going to be talking about, my wife will bring up in passing some joke along the lines of referring to you

and the establishment that you visited.

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