254 | Our Current Bucket Lists
00:00What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a couple things.With Sean and Andrew.Today's all about a bucket list.It's going to be a good episode because we have big plans.And I just realized that one thing we have not talked about is we grew our family by a member of one.We did.We adopted and rescued a golden retriever.He is 10 months old and his name is Oakley.
00:23Picked him up about a week ago.And Sean and I were looking at Nash, who is now 12.years old is that right he'll be 12 July 1st he's as old as as we have been together we got him like amonth into dating and he's a amazing dog who was kind of like trained by my family's dog dodgerwho like kind of passed on his demeanor and we just love the golden retriever energy and nash'sdemeanor so we wanted to have hopefully a lot of years of overlap between nash andyounger dog so that we could continue that and the kids could enjoy it and we each had golden retrieversgrown up um and so we started applying for adoptions which is a hard process it is we got denied by
01:16one company and said we weren't uh suitable because we have young kids no it didn't say why no nowhy no oh maybe i just said you don't meet the requirements maybe there's just a consolationthat I was thinking of, but...We knew we wanted a puppy.We knew we wanted to rescue,and we knew we wanted a golden retriever.And out of nowhere, I got a DM from a friend.She said, did you see these dogs?
01:43There are two posted on Wags and Walks Nashville,which is the local rescue shelter here.And they were absolutely gorgeous, nine months.Gorgeous.Two boys, Oakley, and Hank.And I texted my friendwho runs wags and walksand I was like I want them
02:03or I want one of themI'll tell you the end of that storycan I come meet them and they saidcan you come todayliterally went and met themfell in love with Oakleyloved both of them so so so muchand left with Oakley
02:21the next morningmy mom and dad went backand got the other oneso we got a lot of dogs run aroundA lot of. We have five dogs amongst the two houses.And Oakley's about nine months old. Our understanding is that there was their old parents in Alabama, got them, trained them.Yeah.But maybe didn't have time for them. So it took him to a shelter. And then we were fortunate enough to come across these guys. So he really fits right into our family.
02:51He's the best dog in the entire world. It's amazing.Obsessed with our kids. And we were very cautious, you know, bringing an arrest.queue and trying to make sure we set him up for success.But, like, within an hour, he was, like, in love with our kids and in love with Nash and in love with us.And he just wants to, like, lay on top of us.Big cuddler.He's the sweetest dog ever.Big outdoors guy.
03:17He does have some puppy qualities, like, chewing on everything.And still pees every now and then.He does.We had to get him neutered.So, anyway, it's fun.And we're really excited about all the memories that we will.be able to share with Oakley.I mean, I feel like my childhood dog is just like, poor memories.
03:35This will be our kids' childhood dog, which is wild.Oh, man.I got the feels right now.They have already bonded with him so much.Bear loves this guy.Yeah.Our one-year-old is obsessed with Oakley, so.Nash is definitely Andronized dog.
03:49Like, he clings to us, not the kids.Oakley, like, clings to the kids.He loves the kids.And Nash, for those wondering, is settling in Oakley.Okay, it took him a couple days, but I think, you know, we got home last night and they seem to have reached some sort of agreement.They have.An equilibrium, so.I will say when Oakley was at the vet to get neutered, Nash seemed a little happier.
04:16But if you have a dog and you come home to an empty house with no dog, it's kind of like a sad thing.I don't know, I guess we've just had dogs forever.And so the fact that they greet you and there's noise.all the time and you have something to take care of,someone to cuddle with.It's just really special.And so now we have two and it actually doesn't feel that overwhelming.Not at all.
04:38I don't think like Nash and Oakley are not entertaining each other.Like some people talk about with two dogs,but it definitely makes for a more lively feel around the house.I'm just waiting for the first time that they play together.Yeah.Nash also is not much of a play dog.No.He's getting old.
04:58He's an old guy.Yeah. So we're very excited. But the featured comment of the day, the comment of the day is from a friend making machine who says title is wholesome.The Sean and Andrew are truly so wholesome. Listening to them talk and banter feels like sitting with another friend couple. Thank you for sharing your love with us.Wait until you hear the last podcast. We did one on. The title is marriage is not about your happiness.and uh well banter banter's a good term for that one if you're looking for classically savageis what i was deemed oh man uh but today we're going to share about our bucket list maybe as a coupledefinitely as a family we're going to share some of our loose travel plans for this year as wellwe're so pumped dude we're traveling a lot which i'm so excited for but honestly
05:56So we have had the opportunity to do a lot of cool things in our lifetime.And it's fun to look at the things that we still want to do.Places that we want to go, things that we want to see.It's cool to slowly check some of these big bucket list items off of our list as a year's pastand add new experiences that we hope to have with our family.I think we approach it, though, not like, it's not a bucket list in the sense that, like,I have to do all these things.It's more of a how can we make memory?
06:26together. Andrew and I lovetraveling and experiencingnew cultures and new things.We've always said we're not repeatvacationers. So once we go somewherewe probably will never go back.That's alwayshow we have been.
06:42And wegot our first taste of it with our kidswhen we took them to Tijuana, Mexicoto do a home build.We saw how much they loved it.They loved the adventure. They lovedthe included. The stuff that theytalked about and they witnessed and how
06:58impacted them was really, really special.So after Tijuana, we startedtraveling and making bigger plans.Our very first, like,large internet, well, our veryfirst trip, we took them to Turks and Kekos,which was very boogie.But it was like dabbling
07:14in international travel, goingsomewhere new. We got them all their passports,which is a process. Drew and Jetloved it. And then we started reallydabbling. So we went to Israel, Greece.What were the other countries we did?Cyprus.And...
07:30I think that was it.Yeah.That was another trip.But Andrew and I had decided two years ago.Yeah.When we had had jet and summer plans had come around, there was no type of like mom's day out.You know, we were trying to figure out what summers were going to look like for us.We made this choice and decision that as a family, we are going to spend summers abroad.
07:54We were going to travel.we're going to make big travel plans and go experience the world as a family.You're forgetting where this all stem from.As I see it, all of this as a result of our Christmas gifts to each other.Oh, yeah.Which, for those who have been around for a while, you know, Sean and I don't really give each other gifts.Nope.We're not gift people.
08:18We don't like gifts.For the last five or six years, what we've stumbled into doing, which sounds so ridiculous.No, it's so much fun.It really is fun.So we essentially gift each other a PowerPoint presentation for lack of a better term.And they're elaborate.But it's pitching each other experiences that we want to have.So essentially the core tenant that we're tapping into is like not about the material thing.
08:45It's about living life together.That is one of our family values.Our family values are playfulness, togetherness, curiosity,generous stewardship and faithfulness.Yes.So togetherness.And curiosity.Yes, and curiosity are kind of the two things that get scratched with this.
09:07I will say going overseas heightens the, I think, the intensity of that togetherness.But like we get the same break from routine and special moments being unlocked as when we do a state.vacation or we go to Indiana or we you know like for sure it's really we Sean and I really areroutine oriented people and so we could live the same day and be happy with it for the whole yearso this is like an intentional deviation from that to break routine and then it unlocks allthese like oh we're cuddling and sleeping with a kid or whatever to give a little detail though tothe Christmas gift in case you guys want to do it the way we do it is we will pitch to each otherthree ideas. The three ideas are three trips. So we each have to come up with like the idea of three
10:01trips that year. It can be very, very small. Like Andrew said, a staycation at the local hotel orcamping in the backyard, whatever it is. Or it can be very grand. But we also like put together thefull itinerary and what that trip will look like. So like every detail. Pictures of what hotelyou're going to stay at, what adventures you're going to take while you're there. So what parks or museum?Who's going to go?Like is it, are we pitching just a husband and wife trip?Are we pitching an extended family trip, just us five, like all the details.But we each come up with three.
10:35Usually the way that looks is I will come up with an idea that's just Andrew and I.I'll come up with an idea that's extended family and an idea that's us five.And Andrew will do the same.We pitch it to each other.And then the gift is that we each get to choose one from each other's.Which is really fun.I think we started doing it the year before we had Drew.and what's awesome and I just realized is Drew's kind of adopted this so our spring break this year
11:01she came to us unsolicited and said hey mommy daddy what if we spent three days at the beach and three daysin Indiana and she was starting to craft these ideas which is so funny because the kids will bearound when we kind of pitch each other so but I think it's I think it's really fun it allows meto get to know Sean there's like effort put into it that's different than I don't know I guessis maybe more just our love language, but anyway, this year we are going to knock off somebucket list items with our family travel. And when we do think about buckalists, it's a nicereminder to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. So I feel like the world is very big andmade up of so many incredible places, but it becomes pretty easy to get stuck in the day-to-day
11:45routines of being a spouse and parent. And honestly, we are so content in the day-to-day routinesthat we could just do that forever. And so we have tostructure these in. Butwe'd love to know what's on your bucketlist. Let us know in the comments belowand we're looking forward to hearing from you. Butthe term bucket list for those thatdon't know it and aren't
12:05familiar with it refers to a listof things that a person wants to do before theyquote unquote kick the bucketor put more bluntlythings they want to do beforethey die. Okay?And if you're curious where the term bucket listeven came from the phrase
12:21gained popularity after the 2007 film called Buckelis.If you haven't seen this, it's great as Moly Freeman.But they're both like terminally ill and they make a list of things they want to do before they die and they do it together.So we don't have a buckles written out beyond these experiences.Beyond like travel.But that actually might be a fun exercise to do together.I feel like we doI don't
12:52we don't do like bucket list thingssince we do our annual goalswe put so many goals annuallythat we want to achievelike lifelong bucket listwe should probably put togethera big listwe have put to get together
13:04a big travel bucket listroughlyorganized by the agesof our kidsyeahbecause we want our kids to go with usShanka put togetherthis master file
13:16that like maps outthe rest of our summerswhile we have the kidsin the house like until they're all 18it's pretty amazing umso we have travel bucket listbut we should probably do more likedo we want what do we want
13:29what businesses do we want to start what do we wantour life to look like do we want to run marathonsdo it like whatever you could writeanything down on a bucket list but it's like theselifelong goals thathopefully by the day you die you havecrossed the bomb you know I just realizedwe're so
13:46ambition orientedI know like we talk aboutthe goals all the time some people are like super experience oriented or like i don't know i guessthey they prioritize other things over ambition but those goals that we talk about nonstop really are likethat hey we want to do this or build that it's it's less so experiencing this or that you know what i'msaying yeah some people live to travel i guess is what i'm saying um we're notnecessary that way, butI would like to make a
14:23bucket list with you.Same.And...We also need to do a new vision board.I still have mine from this year.From January.Did you make a vision board in January?Our goals, yeah. You didn't?
14:38I didn't know we put togethera vision board in our goals. I did onCanva. Really?Yeah. Oh, I didn't.Okay. Anyway.You didn't share it.Okay. Well, our current bucklelist as it stands
14:51let's seeislet's just talk aboutthis summerI would say we don'thave onewe need to do a big oneso Sean and I
15:00kind of looked at the globeplaces that we've beenplaces that we likeplaces that we haven't beenwe've done a lot of Europewe've done a lot of South Americaa lot of AmericaI'm a big fan of the state parks
15:12and the national parksbut we've always wanted to ventureover to theSoutheastAsian region.We were supposed to go in2020 for the TokyoOlympics. I know.
15:26That got derailed. We were bigfans of the documentary Yiro Dreams ofsushi if you haven't seen it. Honestly,it might have changed my life and I don't think that's anoverstatement. This guy spends his whole lifedevoted to perfecting sushiwhich is like, you know, fish and riceand you're like, wow. We love
15:42sushi. But anyway, we were supposed to go to thatrestaurant. We've always wantedto go back. Mycousin is Japanese.Fun fact, mycousin'sgrandpa won, he was aJapanese chemist who won the
16:00Nobel Prize. Your father'sbrothers, father-in-law.Yes. Follow that.Okay. Yeah. So I feel close to him.Yeah, I feel close to him. He was atmy like manhood ceremonythat my dad put together. Anyway,Nobel Prize winner from Japan. We have
16:16Japanese roots. It's amazing,culture.So we want to go there.Yes.So we are going there.We're going to Japan.We're going to Singapore and we're going to Dubai over the course of three weeks.We'll spend about five or, it'll end up being five days in each country, but with travel days included, it will be almost three weeks, almost 21 days.
16:40I am pumped.When we travel, when I grew up, we would travel and my dad would pack our schedule with.We have to go to this museum.We have to be out of the hotel as much as possible.You have changed my style in that sense where I'm like, I'm just here for the vibes.Two activities a day.Yeah, one before now.Pre-lunch, post-lunch.
16:58Exactly.And it's not hectic.We're not stressed.We are enjoying and I think like exploring.Yeah.But it's not like a performance.Like we have to maximize the thing.But I will say within these travel.
17:15I know we said we don't really have a bucket.and I want to take our own advice and, like, write a laundry list down.But within each of these places that we choose to go in the summers and that we travel to,I think holds a lot of experiential bucket list items that we have.So in Dubai, we're going to do this whole camel desert camping experience.In Singapore, we're going to go see elephants at an elephant sanctuary.In Japan, we're going to have true Japanese.We're not going to Ero Dreams of Sushi with the kids.
17:51Is that how you say it?Ero.I like how you say it.Would you say?Yero.I think it's Ero.Yeah, I think you're right.Yeah.
17:59Eero is a different culture.So we ate in Greek.Yeah.We're also taking the kids because they're five, three, and one to Disneyland in Tokyo.We did Disneyland in Paris, which the kids absolutely loved.But I do think we're like crossing off bucket list items within places that we go.Well, now I can't stop thinking about the bucket list.And I kind of want to zoom out from just the travel side of the bucket list and talk about categories of the bucket list.
18:29Mm-hmm.I kind of want to just do this live.Great.But I also feel like my tendency is I think I could kick the bucket now and be totally good.Like I don't need anything else from life.I feel good.time with our kids yeah and you i mean this is all just cherry on top but i'm like i'm good so i'm notlike and you know i'm not really a planner either so buckalus inherently comes with it a certain type
19:01of planning okay but i'm just trying to think through the category so we have how about this okayoff the top of your mind like off the top of your brain what's what head what's the sametop of my head off the top of your head okay we're going to do categoryand I want you to give me two, like,top of mind bucket list items that you would put in each.Okay?Okay.We'll do a rough bucket list live for everyone.
19:24Ready?Travel and adventure.Antarctica.Pyramids.Oh, nice one.The India train.You know what I'm talking about?Yes.
19:36There is a train in India that's a week longthat's supposed to be incredible.I would addAfrican safari.Oh, dang, I'm hyped.Yeah.Yeah, that was good.Okay, so travel and adventure.
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20:29If the moment matters, fracture it.Right now, Fracture is giving our listeners 25% off their first order.Head to FractureMe.com and use code couple 25 at checkout.That's FractureMe.com to give your photos the love that they deserve.Personal achievement.accomplishments um you've done it all i guess it's a hard question you've done so much this wouldbe an impossible category but i have one i have one but i don't know if it's truly like a bucket listitem hit me send it some sort of nursing degree oh wow like i've looked at paramedic school i've
21:06looked at going to nursing school wow just to have to scratch the itch i want to get my boatcaptain's license.Wow.Okay.Pilot's license?I would put that in there.That's the second one.Sweet.
21:21Okay.And I would say,I would say,write a New York Times bestselling book.That's very specific, isn't it?So the one we're writing,you want to hit New York Times?Yes.
21:33Yeah.Coming out, June 2026.Buckle up, baby.Okay, next one.Giving back.Philanthropy.I want to give a million dollars.I want to create
21:44a nonprofit that positively impacts lives after we're dead.Love it.You want to give a million dollars?Yeah.Okay.Personally.Okay.I'd like to raise for something over a hundred in a lifetime.
22:04I want to host and help organize a charity event that raises $25 million in one night.wow I like that because we did one last year we did two we hosted two charity events last year one raised a million and a halfand then another raised 215000 yeah the great starting place that was our first one and then themillion a half was the second one we learned our lessons it's a fun challenge and there's likewe did there's a strategy to it okay so giving back is is one category another category would beskills and hobbies i guess maybe that's too close to personal development i want to learn how to makehomemade pasta i get down with that yeah easy i want to make a table that our family eats atwow maybe if like that outdoor kitchen well that is easily attainable with my father
23:05he could teach you how to great i feel like a table is a really symbolic important thing for me yeahMy father by trade, trade.Oh, you're right, dude.He could totally do that.He's your man.Who's, what, is it trade or trade, trade, trade.Trade, trade.Um, has been a, like, high class trim carpenter his whole life.
23:30He can build anything intricate and make it look.Like he built our daughter's bed.Pretty amazing.Custom.Pretty good.Pretty good.Pretty good.It's stunning.
23:42Okay.well i'm not done another skill and hobby yeah yeah i like this one what what hobby do i want to havei want to i want to rue some type of alcohol specifically mead you know why big lord of the ringsguy that kind of era and humanity big honey guy and back in back in like the lord of the rings timeperiod they would always drink mead which was like one of the first um what do you say what dohe's call it when like the yeast oh shoot when the alcohol fermines fermints it was like one of thefirst fermented beverages hmm that was a good poll right there ferment yeah it's off the top of yourmind yeah um yeah brain uh skills and hobbies i would add and these are like attained in this neck this coming
24:39year because we're building a house i want to skillfully learn how to handle and foster and take careof chickens eggs um a garden a full herb vegetable and like some fruit garden like a fruit gardenand i want to learn this is also like facing a fear how to tend bees and extract honey solonot with dad or you by my sideI'm all caught up nowwhat's the difference between a bucketless and goalsI don't knowit's like teetering back and forth
25:17between both of themI feel like it's somewhat differentit's more of like an ambiguousintangible thingI think it's goalsbut you and I are also a firm believerand like no goal is ever too bigso someone might think
25:34it's like a bucket list thingbecause it's like oh that's out of reachyeahUh, that's fair.Let's see.Oh, food and drink.Try new food.Trying new food around the world.
25:49Um, you know what?This, this food and drink and hospitality, I want to sleep in an igloo at one point under the northern lights or the ice hotels.You know what I'm saying?That would be one bucket list thing.I want to do the, um, uh, what is it?In Peru.Machu PicchuYeah
26:13They do like a camping tripFor Machu Picchu where you hike the wholeLikeTrail and you like camp alongside of itI want to hike Kilimanjaro together as a familyI'm hypedOh that is not on my bucket listI'm already hyped
26:28UmWell now it isYou're on my bucket list doing itSoWowI also I think I want to do the iditarodI did a rodJust, okay.
26:40This is getting dangerous quick.And I remember we learned about the Editarod in like fourth grade, the dog sled race in Alaska.And I was like, that's freaking epic, dude.Dude, we'll take Oakley out there, the new pup.He's not.He's not.Dude, he'll learn.No.
26:58Freaking animal out there.I will say I've had the pleasure of going ice climbing in Alaska.Yeah, yeah, yeah.We were together for that.I would really like...all of us to do that that was really cool you know what else i want to experience this will be my lastone i'm imagining i think an epic meal that i want to experience at some point in my lifeis like in morocco in the middle of the desert is how i'm envisioning this with tints in the
27:27background sitting cross-legged with the robe garment eating like hummus and uh nonbread and like chicken no forkI'm eating it with my hands you knowthat's the meal I want that's a bucketless thingwow was that specific yeah I would like tothis is for our kidsit would be a bucket list out of them theirs havesuflay pancakes in Japan
27:59whatweNo, no, I, I, but what, is Japan known for souffle?Yeah, suflay pancakes.What are you saying?Like, I know what that.We looked at pictures of it together.That was the one in Japan?
28:22The really, like, they're like this tall.Oh, my God.That is a Japanese recipe.That's a cake is what that is.I mean, let's stop calling it souffle and just call it cake.Did I poop on yours?I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry um well that was funshall we end it there also this trip that we're going to be taking that we started
28:47talking about bugillus for um is going to come in the middle of a wild couple weekswhich we can't tell you about but we will tell you you have our word we're going to go somewhereand we're going to come backand the day we come backis the day before we leave for Asiaand then we're going to come back from Asiaand the next day we're going to leave for somewhereelse and we're going to come back.
29:14What a life.We're going to be gone forliterally two monthsfrom home.There's a lot of good ways to live a lifea good life.And we say this with kids.Having kids is one of them. I think
29:28stayingand hanging out is one of them.I think doing way too much is also, actually, that's probably the last way to a good life, is doing too much.We should probably throttle that back.We're doing a lot.We?What do you mean?What do you mean?
29:49You are incapable of having free space.Sean.Are you serious?Mr. I like thisPilate's licenseDoctorateMight as well join three men's groupsIf there is a free hour
30:11You're going somewhereYou're the yes manTo every golf trip known to humankindOkay you have the same problemDifferent style with itYou can't sit at home without sittingMaking sourdough or cleaning upOr buying something
30:27We got we had the same ailmentis what I'm saying.Wow.I was thinking about this.I grew up this way.I think there was an iteration of me.I was called bro in college.That was my nickname.
30:42You got it from dad.I was like a chill guy.He did the same thing.Yeah, no, I'm saying I've circled back around to my dad's style,which is very much like,it's not like a performance mentality.It was not out of the need or like identity thing.It's just like the style of like,
31:00we're going to try it all.And we would go to Boy Scout camps.And you're supposed to go and maybe get like five or six merit badges and six days.Not an east.We would get 13 merit badges.He would have a scheduled out to a T and we'd be shown up to this class 10 minutes late.And we'd have to apologize.We have this whole system of like how to communicate or schedule to the whatever.
31:25So it's always been like, and that's how we planned my college career too.here the class you're going to takeI know you're freshmanwe're going to plan out the next five yearsSo what we're saying is this isn't going to changefrom either of us probablyI think we feed into itin a mostly healthy way
31:43somewhat unhealthy at certain timesyeahbut that's something we're here to talk aboutwe're talking bucketlessthat was funSean's about to work on this trip right nowas I say you know something funny isthis little book a book
31:56I have so many people ask mewhat travel agent I usefor all of our trips.None.Sean is legitimatelyworld classat planning these experiences.We have used a travel agent once.
32:09And it was the worst part of that trip.It was.I will never use a travel agent again.I have to plan it myself.I have to plan every logistic,every flight, every hotel,or Airbnb or activity.And I told Andrew,
32:25like everything I do is digital now.Andrews converted me.Except this.I have to write it down.But then I lost this book for a little bit.And then I panicked because all the information's in it.Do you enjoy doing the planning?I do.
32:37I love it.Yeah, you'll look at the hotels and you'll show me the stuff and you'll watch Instagram videos on this.I just think part of travel for us is such, like you said, an experiential thing.Being able to find a very specific hotel that is like perfectly suited for our family in the sense of like,Like, I don't want to go and stay at an American hotel in Japan.I want to experience Japan.But also set our kids up for success to have, like, an outlet to play.And, like, there's just, there's so many options now that, for me, it's fun sifting through it and being like, wow.
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35:03Or is it like, hey, these are the flights.These are the hotels we're going to stay at.You know what I'm saying?It's different with each one.So, like, when we did Paris, we had a very set schedule that we had to work with itbecause the Olympics and stuff.So we had a calendar.We said, this is happening on that day.
35:19Sean has to do this interview on that day or whatever, yeah.With this trip, it's been a little different because you and I kind of selected a rough frameof time that we hadand we set it asideand so I was workingwithin that frame of timeand I'll start with flightsso like we were going to go Dubai
35:38to Singapore to Japan and backand figured outthat we would save aridiculous amount of money if weswapped it. It was like60 or 70% cheaperto go Japan, Singapore, Dubai.To go Nashville west
35:54to Tokyo versusNashville East.That was interesting.Yeah.And then I start looking at hotels and like bucketing.So now that I have like figured out our dates for each place, then I go and find hotels.And then after I find hotel, then I start working on logistics of like transport.Like how are we going to get from the airport to the place?
36:20And then I work on itinerary of like restaurants, activities.down days experiences i love you i love you and i would say within the process we have flightsnot booked i need but i think i'm done with hotels which is like the biggest one the hotel is alwaysthe hardest because like that's you're not just finding a good hotel that like suits your familyyou're finding like a hub like what area of town are you in what's walkable where's a train i thinkwe mostly align on this sean probably enjoys being around and in the hotel more than i do yeah butour general thesis is like the hotel is just to tie anchor us to a certain location we're not tryingto spend all day every day there some people no spend time at the hotel we're not flying to
37:20Japan to never leave the hotel. We use it as a homebase that we then go out from.Yes. But you also want to look fora hotel, especially for usif we're going to Japan, Singapore, and Dubaiwith three kids under the age of six.Like we want to find a hotelthat does speak English.
37:37Not all of them, but like has thataccessibility. So we can helpget help findingyou know, where to go and how to get there.And yeah, it's justthere's a lot of details. And we're alsokind of fly by the seat of our pants. So we'llhave, we'll do
37:54a lot of research on what experiencesare available. We don't usually book them.And we'll kind of pick it like, hey,this didn't work out. So we'll just kind ofgo with the flow in the moment. And having kids,it's like, if they wake up one day and they'reabsolutely pooped, it's like, it'sprobably not the day to go
38:10adventure through the city.Yeah. But I'll make a list ofprobably10 things in eachplace that we have options.to choose from.It's pretty fun.Ten activities,
38:2310 restaurants.We use Viator,which has been clutchto the best.For the last six yearsof traveling,we've used Viator.Yes.
38:33And you just get on thereand you can kind of likeexperience shop,which is amazing.Customer service,A plus, plus.A plus.A plus.
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39:05we hope you have a wonderfully blessed day i'm andrew i'm sean we'll catch you next time
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