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Kirk just returned from a seven-night cruise on Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas. It was out of Bayonne, New Jersey, down to the Bahamas and Florida, Nassau, Perfect Day, and Port Canaveral. How you doing, Kurt? Hey, I'm very good. Good to talk to you again, my friend. Let's take a step back here. What made you want to take this seven-nighter out of Bayonne, New Jersey?

I think the prominent thing was that this is an oasis ship we hadn't been on yet.

And I do like that class.

So that's what we scheduled for.

And it's close port to us.

We drive up there.

I know you live in Maryland.

Do you ever sail out of Baltimore?

We have before, but all the ships are older and smaller. So that's not the preferred ship for my wife.

Gotcha. Fair enough. I like a classy kind of feel, but they're a little dated, you know, a lot of them. That's fair. So you make your way to Bayonne. How was the embarkation process from the curb

to the ship? And we had someone on a few weeks ago who sailed on a ship, and they said that it was a

little bit of a cluster getting into the parking lot because of the way they have you scan in and everything.

Have they rectified that? I did not have a problem. In fact, we normally get in like right at the time

period we were supposed to check in. This time we were a bit late. We were about an hour late and

we had an early check-in but the traffic was worse around the area, not so much, maybe a little bit in the terminal area,

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